Semantic map generation from natural-language-text documents

ABSTRACT

A computer-implemented process includes obtaining a natural-language-text document comprising a first and second clause and determining first and second embedding sequences based on n-grams of the first and second clauses. The process includes generating data model objects based on the embedding sequences and determining an association between the first data model object and the second data model object based on a shared parameter of the first and second clauses. The process includes receiving a query including the first category and the first n-gram and causing a presentation of a visualization of data model objects that includes shapes based on the data model objects and a third shape based on the association between the first data model object and the second data model object.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This patent claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application63/034,255, filed on Jun. 3, 2020 titled “SEMANTIC CONTRACT MAPS.” Thispatent also claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application63/134,872, filed on Jan. 7, 2021, titled “STRUCTURED SEMANTIC CONTRACTMAPS.” This patent also claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional PatentApplication 63/191,724 filed on May 21, 2021, titled “SEMANTIC CONTRACTMAPPING WITH DEEP LEARNING.” The entire content of each afore-listedpatent filing is hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes.

BACKGROUND

Distributed applications operating on a distributed computing platformmay be useful in a variety of contexts. Such applications can storeprogram state data on a tamper-evident data store operating on thedistributed computing platform. The use of a tamper-evident data storeor some other data systems distributed over multiple computing devicesmay increase the security and reliability of distributed applications.Additionally, data queried from the tamper-evident data store may beutilized in applications related to the context in which thetamper-evident data store is used.

SUMMARY

The following is a non-exhaustive listing of some aspects of the presenttechniques. These and other aspects are described in the followingdisclosure.

Some aspects include a process that includes obtaining anatural-language-text document comprising a first clause and a secondclause. The process includes determining a first embedding sequencebased on n-grams of the first clause and a second embedding sequencebased on n-grams of the second clause. The process includes generating afirst data model object and a second data model object based on thefirst embedding sequence and the second embedding sequence. The firstdata model object comprises a first field populated with a first n-gramof the first clause and a second field populated with a first category.The second data model object comprises third field populated with asecond n-gram of the second clause and a fourth field populated with asecond category. The process includes determining an association betweenthe first data model object and the second data model object based on ashared parameter of the first and second clauses. The process includesreceiving a query comprising the first category and the first n-gram.The process includes causing a presentation of a visualization of thefirst and second data model objects in response to receiving the query.The visualization includes a first shape comprising the first n-gram andthe first category, a second shape comprising the second n-gram and thesecond category, and a third shape comprising a first end that isconnected to the first shape and a second end that is connected to thesecond shape based on the association between the first data modelobject and the second data model object. The process includes storingthe first data model object and the second data model object to memory.

Some aspects include a tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable mediumstoring instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatuscause the data processing apparatus to perform operations including theabove-mentioned process.

Some aspects include a system, including: one or more processors; andmemory storing instructions that when executed by the processors causethe processors to effectuate operations of the above-mentioned process.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above-mentioned aspects and other aspects of the present techniqueswill be better understood when the present application is read in viewof the following figures in which like numbers indicate similar oridentical elements:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a first computing environment in whicha self-executing protocol may be generated from a natural-language-textdocument, in accordance with some embodiments of the present techniques.

FIG. 2 depicts an example system is a logical architecture block diagramillustrating a computing environment in which a natural-language-textdocument may be used to generate a semantic map, in accordance with someembodiments of the present techniques.

FIG. 3 is flowchart illustrating a process to generate a semantic map,in accordance with some embodiments of the present techniques.

FIG. 4 shows an example visualization of a semantic map generated from anatural-language-text document, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present techniques.

FIG. 5 shows an example user interface of a self-executing protocolsearch interface, in accordance with some embodiments of the presenttechniques.

FIG. 6 shows an example user interface of a self-executing protocolsearch result, in accordance with some embodiments of the presenttechniques.

FIG. 7 show a computer system for generating a data structure based on anatural-language-text document, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present techniques.

While the present techniques are susceptible to various modificationsand alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way ofexample in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. Thedrawings may not be to scale. It should be understood, however, that thedrawings and detailed description thereto are not intended to limit thepresent techniques to the particular form disclosed, but to thecontrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, andalternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the presenttechniques as defined by the appended claims.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF CERTAIN EMBODIMENTS

To mitigate the problems described herein, the inventors had to bothinvent solutions and, in some cases just as importantly, recognizeproblems overlooked (or not yet foreseen) by others in the field ofnatural language processing. Indeed, the inventors wish to emphasize thedifficulty of recognizing those problems that are nascent and willbecome much more apparent in the future should trends in industrycontinue as the inventors expect. Further, because multiple problems areaddressed, it should be understood that some embodiments areproblem-specific, and not all embodiments address every problem withtraditional systems described herein or provide every benefit describedherein. That said, improvements that solve various permutations of theseproblems are described below.

Technology-based self-executing protocols, such as smart contracts andother programs, have seen increased use in recent years. However, somesmart contracts data models and other data models used by self-executingprotocols often rely on industry-specific conventions that may bedifficult to generalize, use for comparison analysis, or re-use insimilar contexts due to minor differences in contract details. As aresult, the use of self-executing protocols has not extended into areasthat are often the domain of natural-language-text documents. Incontrast, contracts encoded in a natural-language-text document oftenrely on imprecise human interpretation systems to provide the resourcesand mechanisms to construct, interpret, and enforce terms in thenatural-language-text document. As contract terms increase in number ora situation within which a contract was formed evolves, such reliancemay lead to a lack of enforcement, ambiguity, and wasted resources spenton the re-interpretation or enforcement of contract terms. Describedherein is a process and related system to construct a semantic map thatpermits the interpretation, analysis, and reliable re-use of terms for aself-executing protocol in a systematic and unambiguous way across abroad range of applicable fields.

The interpretability of a complex natural-language-text document may besignificantly enhanced by generating appropriate data structures thatsatisfy the boundaries and expectations of a domain of thenatural-language-text document. Some embodiments may use one or moreoperations described in this disclosure to generate a semantic map basedon the text of a natural-language-text document. A semantic map mayinclude a data structure comprising data model objects (i.e., “dataentity”) such as semantic triples or semantic doubles, where the datamodel objects may be nested with respect to each other or may beotherwise associated with each other. As used in this disclosure, asemantic triple may include a data model object including at least threevalues that codifies a statement about semantic data, where each of thethree values may be associated with a different parameter identifier.While some embodiments of a semantic triple may codify a semanticstatement such that a first field value stores a subject identifier, asecond field value stores a predicate identifier, and a third fieldvalue stores an object identifier, other versions of a semantic tripleare possible. Reference to “objects” should not be read as limiting thepresent techniques to object-oriented programming languages. The term,rather, references a data structure that may be implemented inobject-oriented and non-object-oriented programming languages. Semantictriples may be part of larger unit data structures with more than threefields without ceasing to constitute a “semantic triple,” e.g., asemantic triple embedded in a unit data structure with four fields isstill a semantic triple.

Some embodiments may associate category values with the data modelobjects or use the data model objects as elements of conditionalstatements or portions of conditional statements. In some embodiments,some of the category values may represent categories of deontic logic orotherwise be mutually exclusive with respect to each other, where theproperties of mutual exclusivity may be used to increase machineefficiency when processing or searching through data model objects andpredicting possible outcomes. For example, some embodiments may use asemantic map stored in the form of a directed graph to predict outcomesusing one or more operations described in U.S. Pat. No. 10,990,879,titled “GRAPH EXPANSION AND OUTCOME DETERMINATION FOR GRAPH-DEFINEDPROGRAM STATES,” which is hereby incorporated by reference in itsentirety.

In some embodiments, a clause or other text section of anatural-language-text document may be associated with a category valuebased on a conditional statement generated from the clause, where theconditional statement may be generated from one or more data modelobjects that were determined from the clause. For example, someembodiments may associate a first semantic triple with the categoryvalue “right,” where the category value may indicate that the semantictriple represents a right of a first entity to perform one or moreoperations indicated by the semantic triple. Some embodiments mayindicate different types of category values with different entities. Forexample, the category value “right” for a first semantic triple may beassociated with a first entity and not associated with a second entityin response to a determination that the semantic triple is a right ofthe first entity and not a right of the second entity. Furthermore, someembodiments may distinguish between different types of data modelobjects based on their content, where a semantic triple may includenon-processed text, a proposition data structure, or another data modelobject, such as a semantic triple described in provisional patentapplication 63/034,255, filed on Jun. 3, 2020 and titled “SEMANTICCONTRACT MAPS,” which is hereby incorporated by reference in itsentirety. For example, some embodiments may generate a semantic triplein the form of an “(s, p, t)” semantic triple. As described elsewhere inthis disclosure, in an “(s, p, t)” semantic triple, “s” may represent anentity associated with a category value and “p” may represent thecategory value selected from a set of mutually exclusive categories“[“right”, “obligation”, “prohibition”]. Furthermore, “t” may representan object entity, text including both a verb predicate and an object, asemantic double or second data model object that may include the verbpredicate in a first field of the second data model object and theobject entity in a second field of the second data model object, or thelike.

In some embodiments, the category value of a semantic triple or anotherdata model object may represent a category of a deontic logic model,where category values may be selected from a set of deontic primitivecategories. As recited elsewhere in this disclosure, a category valuemay include a label such as “right,” “obligation,” or “prohibition.” Thecategory value may indicate whether a written or program-encodedbehavior is one that an entity may perform, must perform to avoid aconsequent outcome, or must not perform to not trigger a consequentoutcome. As recited elsewhere in this disclosure, a semantic triple orother data model object may be associated with a status such as “true,”“false,” or “unrealized,” where the status may be associated with aconditional statement that indicates one or more consequent outcomesbased on the status or a change in status. The set of data model objectsgenerated from a natural-language-text document may be collected into adirected graph, where the directed graph may be stored in variousformats such as a graph database, a set of links associating records ofa SQL database, or the like. The directed graph may include informationassociated with the set of data model objects, such as associative arrayof data model objects, their associated category values, theirassociated states, text obtained from clauses or other text sectionsused to generate a data model object, labels of headers or otheridentifiers for the text sections, timestamps indicating times when adata model object is updated, entity identifiers, or the like.

As discussed elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may use oneor more machine learning models to determine data model objects fromnatural language text, determine inferences based on the data modelobjects, or perform other information extraction or categorizationoperations. For example, some embodiments may apply natural languageprocessing (NLP) operations to convert an existing prose document into asemantic map of a smart contract using operations similar to thosedescribed for patent application 63/134,872, filed on Jan. 7, 2021,titled “STRUCTURED SEMANTIC CONTRACT MAPS,” which is hereby incorporatedby reference in its entirety. For example, some embodiments maydetermine that a natural-language-text document includes a first clausethat recites, “subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein,each lender severally agrees to make a term A loan in dollars to theparent borrower on the closing date in an aggregate principal amount notexceeding its term A commitment.” Using one or more operations describedin this disclosure, some embodiments may use a machine learning model oranother natural language model to generate a semantic triple “(lender,obligation, to make a term A loan).” Some embodiments may furtherextract “to make” from the recited text after a determination that “tomake” is a verb predicate and convert the proposition “to make a term Aloan” into the predicate object pair “(to make, term A loan).” Asdescribed elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may use one ormore implementations of NLP methods to extract information from the textof clauses. Alternatively, or in addition, some embodiments may extractadditional information from the natural language text or further segmentthe extracted information into additional data model objects andassociate the additional information with the semantic triple.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may storedata model objects or other information extracted from anatural-language-text document into a directed graph, where a graph maybe referred to as the same graph after the graph is manipulated. Forexample, if a graph is referred to as a “first graph” is modified toinclude an extra graph vertex and graph edge, the term “first graph” maybe used to refer to the modified graph. Additionally, it should beunderstood that a data structure need not be labeled in program code asa graph to constitute a graph, as long as that data structure encodesthe relationships between values described herein. For example, a graphmay be encoded in a key-value store even if the source code does notlabel the key-value store as a graph. In some embodiments, graphvertices of a directed graph may represent text sections such asparagraphs, clauses, contract agreement terms or the like.Alternatively, or in addition, some embodiments may generate the graphvertices that are associated with data model objects generated from theclauses or other text sections. Additionally, graph edges may representparent-child relationships or references between the text sections,where the graph edges may be associated with labels indicating differentrelationships between text sections or data model objects generated fromthe text sections. Some embodiments may use the directed graph as asemantic map that permits efficient navigation and visualization ofinformation stored in a natural-language-text document.

Some embodiments may use a semantic map to generate a self-executingprotocol. As used in this disclosure, a self-executing protocol mayinclude a program executable as a script, an application, or portion ofan application on a decentralized distributed computing platform,centralized computing system, or single computing device. Self-executingprotocols may execute responsive to external events, which may includeoutputs of third-party programs, measurements provided by sensors, orhuman input via a user interface (UI). For example, a self-executingprotocol may execute on a computing substrate that involves humanintervention to operate, like turning on a computer and launching anevent listener.

A self-executing protocol may be implemented in various ways. Forexample, some embodiments may construct, enforce, or terminate theself-executing protocol using a distributed ledger or distributedcomputing system. Alternatively, some embodiments may implement theself-executing protocol using a request-response system over a public orprivate internet protocol (IP) network. Using the methods described inthis disclosure may increase the efficiency of self-executing protocolenforcement by advancing the state of complex computer programs thatenforce behaviors between multiple independent entities in a fast andunambiguous way. Furthermore, implementing and using self-executingprotocols with the embodiments described herein may allow for thecomparison, quantification, and reuse of self-executing protocols in away that would be inapplicable to custom-coded self-executing protocols.In some embodiments, the self-executing protocol may be stored in adistributed, tamper-evident data store. A distributed, tamper-evidentdata store (e.g., repositories rendering data tamper-evident with one ormore tamper-evident data structures) afford desirable properties,including making it relatively easy to detect tampering with entries inthe data store and making it relatively difficult to modify entries toavoid such detection. Furthermore, various self-executing protocols maybe operating across one or more nodes of a computer network hosting thedistributed, tamper-evident data store, reducing the susceptibility ofthe self-executing protocol to geographically localized attacks oranomalies.

In some embodiments, graph vertices of a directed graph generated from anatural-language-text document may be associated with (e.g., encode,identify, or otherwise represent) data model objects, such as anormative statement (“norm”) of a self-executing protocol. In someembodiments, the data model object may represent a formal languagestatement that, as described elsewhere in this disclosure, may be pairedwith a set of statuses, such as a truth condition. For example, the datamodel object may be used as a part of a conditional statement thatbranches program flow or otherwise changes program state responsive to adetermination that a truth condition is satisfied. For example, a graphvertex of a directed graph may include a conditional statement thatincludes a first semantic triple associated with a truth condition. Thegraph vertex may also include a second semantic triple associated with aconsequent outcome that occurs in response to a determination that thetruth condition is set to a status indicating satisfaction of the firstconditional statement. Furthermore, it should be understood that theterm “norm” is used for illustrative purposes and that this term mayhave different names in other references and contexts.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, text sections may beassociated with a collection of one or more data model objectsrepresenting a norm, where the collection of data model objects mayinclude conditions, outcomes of condition satisfaction or failure,indications of a satisfaction status, or the like. In some embodiments,satisfying a condition of a conditional statement may change asatisfaction status of the conditional statement and lead to thecreation or activation of a consequent norm of the conditional statementbased on the actions performed by the system when executing the outcomesubroutines corresponding to the satisfied condition. In someembodiments, an active conditional statement may be triggered when adetermination is made that an event satisfies a condition of theconditional statement, where triggering an active conditional statementmay cause a consequent outcome of the active conditional statement tooccur. For example, some embodiments may trigger a conditional statementafter determining that an event indicates that an action stored in asemantic triple has been performed, where the semantic triple is used asan associated condition of the conditional statement. Alternatively,some types of conditional statements may be triggered when an associatedcondition of the conditional statement is not satisfied before acondition expiration threshold is satisfied.

As used in this disclosure, an active conditional statement is aconditional statement having associated conditions that, after havingbeen satisfied by an event, cause the occurrence of one or moreconsequent outcomes of the active conditional statement. In contrast, aninactive conditional statement is not updated even if its correspondingconditions are satisfied. For example, a conditional statement mayinclude a first condition “if generator1.power_output<threshold” that isgenerated from the semantic triple (“generator1”, “obligation”, “toprovide power power_output greater than threshold”) using one or moreoperations described in patent application 63/191,724 filed on May 21,2021, titled “SEMANTIC CONTRACT MAPPING WITH DEEP LEARNING,” which ishereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. If the conditionalstatement is indicated as an active conditional statement, adetermination that the criterion “generator1.power_output<threshold” maytrigger an encoded consequent outcome, where the consequent outcome mayalso be generated from a semantic triple. In contrast, if theconditional statement is indicated as an inactive conditional statement,the encoded consequent outcome may remain untriggered even if adetermination is made that the criterion“generator1.power_output<threshold” is not satisfied. In someembodiments, a conditional statement may remain in an inactive statebecause a parent conditional statement of the inactive conditionalstatement is not satisfied or may be rendered inactive due to otherchanges in the state of a self-executing protocol.

Some embodiments may store self-executing protocol data in one or moretypes of formats. For example, while some embodiments may temporarilystore a directed graph in non-persistent storage, some embodiments maystore the directed graph on a persistent storage. In some embodiments,various other types of information such as conditional statementstatuses (e.g., “triggered,” “failed,” “satisfied,” etc.), deonticcategories (e.g., “rights,” “obligation,” “prohibition,” etc.), or otherinformation may be included in or otherwise associated with some or allof the vertices of the directed graph. Furthermore, some embodiments maygenerate visual display representing of the program state data to showthe directed graph and its associated statuses, categories, or otherinformation. For example, as further described below, some embodimentsmay display the directed graph as a set of UI elements structured as ahierarchy tree in a web application.

A self-executing protocol may be generated from a set of data modelobjects that incorporate elements of a deontic logic model, where anevent may trigger an active conditional statement of the self-executingprotocol by satisfying a condition of the conditional statement. Aconditional statement of a self-executing protocol may include valuesstored in the set of data model objects. For example, a condition of aconditional statement may be generated based on a semantic triple thatindicates that a first entity has an obligation to perform an actionassociated with the natural language text header “header1.” Someembodiments may then generate a condition based on the action associatedwith the “header1” in response to a determination that the semantictriple includes a field value that indicates that the action is anobligation. Some embodiments may also perform operations to determinefuture outcome states of a self-executing protocol, such as a possiblefuture change in one or more state values. Some embodiments may performoperations to determine a future outcome state using operationsdescribed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/893,299, filed Jun. 4,2020, titled “GRAPH EXPANSION AND OUTCOME DETERMINATION FORGRAPH-DEFINED PROGRAM STATES,” which is hereby incorporated by referencein its entirety.

None of the preceding should be taken to suggest that any technique isdisclaimed or that the approaches described herein may not be used inconjunction with other approaches having these or other describeddisadvantages, for instance, some embodiments may use a custom-writtensmart-contract that includes one or more of the norms, data structures,or graphs described herein. Alternatively, or in addition, someembodiments may be implemented on a centralized server without storingself-executing protocol state data on a distributed computing system,such as a decentralized computing system. Further, it should beemphasized that the data structures, concepts, and instructionsdescribed herein may bear labels different from those applied here inprogram code, e.g., a data structure need not be labeled as a “node” ora “graph” in program code to qualify as such, provided that theessential characteristics of such items are embodied.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a first computing environment in whicha self-executing protocol may be generated from a natural-language-textdocument, in accordance with some embodiments of the present techniques.As shown in FIG. 1, a computing environment 100 may include a computersystem 102, a first entity system 104, a second entity system 106, orother computer systems. The computer system 102 may include a processor112, a local memory 116, or other computer components. Each of the firstentity system 104 or second entity system 106 may include any type ofmobile computing device, fixed computing device, or other electronicdevice. In some embodiments, the first entity system 104 may performtransactions with the second entity system 106 by sending messages viathe network 150 to the computer system 102. Parameters, variables, orother values used to perform one or more operations described in thisdisclosure may be retrieved or stored in the local memory 116.Alternatively, or in addition, parameters, variables, or other valuesused or provided by the computer system 102, entity systems 104-106, orother systems may be sent to or retrieved from the remote data storage144 via the network 150, where the remote data storage 144 may includethe memory of a distributed computing system.

In some embodiments, the computer system 102 may execute a set ofapplications with a processor 112 to perform one or more operationsdescribed in this disclosure, such as operations of the process 300. Asdescribed elsewhere in this disclosure, the computer system 102 mayobtain a natural-language-text document and segment thenatural-language-text document into text sections. The computer system102 may then determine a set of learned representations (e.g., embeddingvectors, categories, etc.) corresponding to the words, lexical items, orother n-grams of the text sections. For example, the computer system 102may use a set of neural network layers or other components of a trainedmachine learning model to generate embedding vectors based on thenatural language text. In some embodiments, the computer system 102 mayinclude or be part of a decentralized computing platform capable ofpersisting state to a decentralized tamper-evident data store.Furthermore, in some embodiments, the decentralized computing platformmay be capable of executing various programs, such as smart contracts,on the computing platform in a decentralized, verifiable manner. Forexample, the computing platform may be hosted on a peer-to-peerdata-sharing network, where each peer node of a set of peer nodes of thepeer-to-peer data-sharing network may perform the same computations. Insome embodiments, a consensus may be reached regarding results of thecomputation. In some embodiments, various consensus algorithms (e.g.,Raft, Paxos, Helix, Hotstuff, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance, HoneyBadger Byzantine Fault Tolerance, or the like) may be implemented todetermine states or computation results of the various programs executedon the decentralized computing platform without requiring that any onecomputing device be a trusted device (e.g., require an assumption thatthe computing device's computation results are correct). The one or moreconsensus algorithms used may be selected or altered to impede an entityfrom modifying, corrupting, or otherwise altering results of thecomputation by peer nodes of the peer-to-peer data sharing network notunder the entity's control. Examples of a decentralized tamper-evidentdata store may include Interplanetary File System, Blockstack, Swarm, orthe like. Examples of a decentralized computing platform may includeHyperledger (e.g., Sawtooth, Fabric, or Iroha, or the like), Stellar,Ethereum, EOS, Bitcoin, Corda, Libra, NEO, or Openchain.

The computer system 102 may generate a set of data model objectscorresponding to propositions detected with a natural language modelbased on a set of embedding vectors or text used to generate the set ofembedding vectors. A data model object includes a category value thatmay be selected from a set of categories of a deontic logic model. Someembodiments may use a recurrent learning model or an attention-basedmachine learning model to categorize the deontic logic model. In someembodiments, the use of a neural network may be combined with the use ofa symbolic artificial intelligence (AI) system to increasecategorization accuracy or perform downstream analysis operations. Inaddition, the computer system 102 may determine associations between thedata model objects based on shared parameters between the data modelobjects or shared parameters between text sections used to generate thedata model objects. Furthermore, the computer system 102 may determinewhether one or more of the entities identified in a data model objectcorresponds with an entity associated with a computer system. Forexample, some embodiments may associate an identifier of the firstentity with the first entity system 104 such that updates to a datamodel object storing the first entity identifier causes a notificationmessage to be sent to the first entity system 104. In some embodiments,the notification may be sent using operations described in U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 17/015,069, filed Sep. 7, 2020, titled “GRAPH-BASEDPROGRAM STATE NOTIFICATION,” which is hereby incorporated by referencein its entirety.

The computer system 102 may then store a semantic map, such as asemantic map stored in the form of a graph database, in local memory116, where the semantic map may include the category values and theassociation between the data model objects. Alternatively, or inaddition, some embodiments may store the semantic map in a remote datastorage 144, where the remote data storage 144 may include adecentralized tamper-evident data store. Furthermore, the computersystem 102 may then cause the presentation of visualizations of the datamodel objects by sending values or program instructions to the firstentity system 104 or the second entity system 106, where thevisualization may include shapes that represent the data model objectsor associations between the data model objects.

FIG. 2 depicts an example system is a logical architecture block diagramillustrating a computing environment in which a natural-language-textdocument may be used to generate a semantic map, in accordance with someembodiments of the present techniques. The diagram 200 presents an NLPmodel 210, where the NLP model 210 may be a machine learning model thatuses the machine learning model parameters 212. The natural languagetext document 202 may be process by the NLP model 210 to populaterecords, values, or other data of a data model 249 after using a finitestate matching algorithm to generate structured document 221 based onthe natural language text document 202. The NLP model 210 may, for eachrespective text section 222 of the text sections of the structureddocument 221, generate a respective sequence of embedding vectors 223using the machine learning model parameters 212. Some embodiments maythen perform one or more operations to determine values of the datamodel 249 based on the respective sequence of embedding vectors 223.

The data model 249 includes a set of data model objects 250, whererecords of the set of data model objects 250 may include a first field251, a second field 252, and a third field 253. Some embodiments maypopulate the fields of a record of the set of data model objects 250with entity identifiers, category values indicating a deontic model,text from a text section such as a clause used to generate the datamodel object, or the like. In some embodiments, a record of the datamodel object may include fields for additional values, such as a fourthfield 254 indicating a text section title or a fifth field 255 that maybe populated with a text section boundary identifier, such as a set oftext positions indicating the boundaries of the text section. A datamodel object of the set of data model objects 250 may include variousother fields, indications of an event, indications of other data modelobjects representing text sections that are associated with the currentdata model object, relationships between the data model objects, or thelike. Furthermore, a field may be said to be “populated” with an n-gramin a variety of ways, including reciting that n-gram in the field,having a pointer to the n-gram in the field, and specifying a semanticreferent of the n-gram in the field (e.g., a global unique identifier, acanonical identifier, or a vector in an embedding space representing thereferent). An “n-gram” may be “received” with a similarly broad set ofapproaches, e.g., the tokens constituting the n-gram need not bereceived for that n-gram to be “received” if some other value specifyingthe referent of the n-gram is received.

In some embodiments, the data model 249 may include a semantic map 260that may be stored in the form of a directed graph. The semantic map 260may include graph vertex identifiers, graph edge identifiersrepresenting associations between different data model objects, textsection identifiers that identify one or more text sections associatedwith graph vertices of the semantic map 260, or the like. In someembodiments, a graph vertex of the semantic map 260 may be mapped to aspecific data model object. For example, a graph vertex of the semanticmap 260 may be mapped to a semantic triple recorded in the set of datamodel objects 250. Alternatively, or in addition, in some embodiments,the semantic map 260 may include graph vertices that obtain data frommultiple data model objects recorded in the set of data model objects250. For example, a graph vertex of the semantic map 260 may includedata from a first semantic triple and data from a second semantictriple, where the data from the first semantic triple indicates acondition of a conditional statement of the graph vertex, and where thedata from the second semantic triple indicates an outcome of theconditional statement. Some embodiments may then generate aself-executing protocol 280 based on the semantic map 260. Theself-executing protocol 280 may use sensor measurements, messages sentfrom other computer systems, or interface-entered values to perform oneor more actions based on a determination that one or more correspondingconditional statements of the self-executing protocol 280 have beentriggered.

In some embodiments, a client computer system 270 may send a query 272to the data model 249, where the query 272 may include category values,entity identifiers, or other values usable to perform a search. Inresponse, some embodiments may search through the set of data modelobjects 250, traverse a graph database of the semantic map 260, orsearch through other data of the data model 249. Some embodiments maypresent a search result of the query 272 in a response 274, where theresponse 274 may be presented in the form of a visualization, searchsummary, text section excerpts, or the like. Various other queryingoperations may be performed, such as operations described in U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 17/015,028, filed Sep. 7, 2020, titled “QUERYINGGRAPH-BASED MODELS,” which is hereby incorporated by reference in itsentirety.

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In some embodiments, the processes and functionality described hereinmay be implemented as computer code stored on a tangible,non-transitory, machine-readable medium, such that when instructions ofthe code are executed by one or more processors, the describedfunctionality may be effectuated. For example, the process 300 of FIG. 3may be implemented as computer code stored on a non-transitorymachine-readable medium. Instructions may be distributed on multiplephysical instances of memory, e.g., in different computing devices, orin a single device or a single physical instance of memory (e.g.,non-persistent memory or persistent storage), all consistent with use ofthe singular term “medium.” In some embodiments, the operations may beexecuted in a different order from that described, some operations maybe executed multiple times per instance of the process's execution, someoperations may be omitted, additional operations may be added, someoperations may be executed concurrently, and other operations may beexecuted serially, none of which is to suggest that any other featuredescribed herein is not also amenable to variation.

FIG. 3 is flowchart illustrating a process to generate a semantic map,in accordance with some embodiments of the present techniques.Operations of the process 300 may begin at block 304. In someembodiments, operations of the process 300 may include obtaining anatural-language-text document, as indicated for block 304. The text ofthe natural-language-text document may be obtained from one of varioustypes of sources, where the text of the document may be provided invarious file types or formats such as plain text, formatted text,hypertext, or the like. The text may be separated into n-grams, where ann-gram may include a sequence of n items from text, where “n” mayrepresent an integer and the items may include letters, syllables,phonemes, other parts of words, complete words, symbols, multi-wordlexical items, or the like. For example, an n-gram may be a word, alexical item, a sequence of lexical items, or the like. Additionally,the n-grams of a document do not need to include the same number ofitems with respect to each other. For example, a first n-gram of adocument may be a lexical item consisting of the word “eat” and a secondn-gram of the document may be a lexical item consisting of the phrase“traffic light.”

The natural-language-text document may be obtained from one of a varietyof data sources, such as the Internet, a private network, an internaldatabase of an organization or another data repository, data provideddirectly from a UI element, or the like. For example, thenatural-language-text document may be obtained from a hyperlink, adistributed database, a cloud database, a database of a private networkhosted by an on-site server, a document stored in a local memory device,or the like. In many cases, the text of a natural-language-text documentmay include unstructured information, where information may be looselyorganized or otherwise missing discrete separators usable as delimitersbetween different text sections. Alternatively, or in addition, thenatural-language-text document may include structured data, where thestructured data includes a set of headers, other types of sectiontitles, enumerated lists, or other elements usable as delimiters toindicate different sections of the document.

In some embodiments, operations of the process 300 may includedetermining a set of clauses or other text sections of thenatural-language-text document, as indicated for block 316. As used inthis disclosure, a text section may be determined by determining theboundaries of the text section in the natural-language-text document,where the boundaries may be stored as numeric values indicating textpositions. Some embodiments may assign an identifier to a text section,where the identifier may be the same as or different from one or both ofthe boundaries. For example, some embodiments may assign a text headerto a text section as a text section identifier. Furthermore, someembodiments may assign one or more category values to the text section,as described elsewhere in this disclosure.

Some embodiments may use a cascade of finite state matching algorithmsto a natural-language-text document to extract the hierarchicalstructure and resolve references. For example, some embodiments mayperform one or more various operations to parse a natural-language-textdocument into a set of text sections based on whitespaces (e.g.,multiple spaces, a line break, etc.) using a finite automata matchingalgorithm to generate a structured document. Some embodiments may parsea natural-language-text document using one or more delimiters, where adelimiter may include whitespace, a symbol, punctuation (e.g., a comma,semicolon, colon, period, etc.), a character, a pattern of characters,other types of n-grams, a set of formatting tags, a set of metadatatags, a set of markup language tags, or the like. As discussed elsewherein this disclosure, some embodiments may use headers or other textelements to segment a natural-language-text document into different textsections, where the different text sections may be structured to mimic aclause hierarchy shown in the natural-language-text document. Someembodiments may then generate a list of clauses or other extracted textsections, where each extracted text section may indicate the prior textin the hierarchy of clauses. As described elsewhere in this disclosure,some embodiments may then determine whether the text section includesone or more trigger phrases or other set of n-grams that is mapped to acategory value representing a deontic category.

Some embodiments may determine text boundaries in multiple steps orotherwise repeat one or more operations described in this disclosure todetermine different types of text sections. For example, someembodiments may determine a first set of text sections based on textheaders indicated by text formatting and then determine a second set oftext sections based on enumerated lists, where text headers or portionsof text headers may then be used as parameters of their correspondingtext section. Some embodiments may pass a clause or other extracted textsection to a natural language preprocessing stage that converts textinto a token sequence, where natural language definition terms may bereplaced by token equivalents of words in the token sequence. A tokensequence may include various types of tokens, where a token mayrepresent a reduced form of a word (e.g., a stemmed or lemmatizedversion of a word), the word itself, or the like. For example, someembodiments may generate a token sequence “[(‘3.21(iv)(b)’, ‘client’,‘is’, ‘permitted’, ‘to’, ‘acquire’, ‘items’, ‘in’, ‘section’, ‘7.89(i)’,‘.’]” based on the clause “(3.21(iv)(b) client is permitted to acquireitems listed in section 7.89(i).” As described elsewhere in thisdisclosure, some embodiments may then generate a sequence of embeddingvectors representing the tokens or other n-grams of the clause in anembedding space representing a feature space of the words of thenatural-language-text document. Furthermore, as described elsewhere inthis disclosure, some embodiments may retrieve a stored set of entityidentifiers and determine whether a word, phrase, or another sequence ofstrings of a text section is stored as an entity identifier. If adetermination is made that the sequence of strings is the identifier orotherwise includes the identifier, some embodiments may determine thatthe sequence of strings is a lexical item or another elementrepresentable as a single token, where an embedding vector may begenerated based on the sequence of strings or token representation ofthe sequence of strings.

Some embodiments may determine parameters associated with text sectionsbased on list structure, enumeration, whitespace, punctuation,formatting, markup language tags, some combination thereof, or the like.For example, some embodiments may use a combination of keywords andnewlines to determine boundaries for a text section and then selectcategory values to assign to the text section based on the keywords. Insome embodiments, the category values may be selected from a set ofcategories including the labels “definitions,” “prices,” “disclaimers,”or the like, where the category values may be distinct from categoryvalues corresponding with category values of a data model objectindicating whether a detected proposition may be a right, obligation, orproposition. In some embodiments, category values for text sections maybe pre-assigned to different combinations of text elements such as whitespaces, keywords, structures, formatting, markup tags, or the like.Alternatively, or in addition, some embodiments may modify associationsbetween category values and combinations of text elements based ondetected features of a text. For example, some embodiments may determinethat text sections are delimited by semicolons at a first text sectionand that text sections are delimited by periods and commas at anothertext section.

As used in this disclosure, a text section may include other textsections. For example, a first text section may include a paragraph,where the first text section may include a second text section and thirdtext section, where the second and third text sections represent firstand second sentences of the paragraph, respectively. The third textsection may include a fourth text section and fifth text section, wherethe fourth and fifth text sections represent first and second clauses ofthe first sentence, respectively. As described elsewhere in thisdisclosure, some embodiments may generate a conditional statement basedon a clause, where the conditional statement may be structured in aspecific format associated with data model entities. For example, aconditional statement may include a first list to store or identify afirst set of semantic triples and a second list to store or identify asecond set of semantic triples, where the first list is to be used asconditions of the conditional statement, and where the second list is tobe used as consequent outcomes of the conditions being satisfied or notsatisfied.

In some embodiments, the natural language text document may includemetadata tags, such as tags of a markup language. Some embodiments maygenerate one or more text sections or otherwise use these tags todetermine relations between different text sections, differentconditional statements of the text sections, or the like. For example,some embodiments may obtain a natural language text document in the formof a markup language, where different sections of the document mayinclude hidden tags such as “<label=“exceptions”> that indicate labelsto assign two different text sections. Furthermore, as describedelsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may generate or update adocument to include markup tags, where the markup tags may be generatedfrom a semantic map or another set of data model objects described inthis disclosure.

In some embodiments, operations of the process 300 may includedetermining a set of embedding sequences or other set of learnedrepresentations associated with the set of clauses or other textsections, as indicated for block 320. A learned representation mayinclude one or more types of values, such as Boolean values, numericvalues, category values, or the like. For example, some embodiments maygenerate a set of learned representations for text data by generating aset of embedding vectors as the set of learned representations. Anembedding vector may include a vector having multiple numeric values ina multi-sense embedding space, where each dimension of the embeddingspace may represent a feature of a natural language domain. Someembodiments may determine embedding vectors for some or all of the wordsof a text using a set of learning model parameters of a machine learningmodel. Alternatively, or in addition, some embodiments may determineembedding vectors for lexical items. For example, some embodiments maygenerate a first set of embedding vectors for words or parts of words ofa first text section.

The embedding space of an embedding vector may include multiple vectordimensions, such as more than two dimensions, more than 20 dimensions,more than 200 dimensions, more than 2000 dimensions, or the like. Insome embodiments, the embedding space of an embedding vector may includefewer dimensions than a cardinality of the words, lexical items, orother n-grams of a natural-language-text document. For example, someembodiments may obtain a natural language text document that includesover 100,000 words and represent the n-gram of the document withembedding vectors in an embedding space having fewer than 100,000dimensions.

Some embodiments may generate an embedding vector or other learnedrepresentation using a machine learning model to otherwise reduce ahigh-dimensional representation of the parts of speech and lexical itemsto embedding vectors of an embedding layer. For example, someembodiments may use a recurrent neural network model, bidirectionalrecurrent neural network model, or transformer neural network model togenerate a sequence of embedding vectors (embedding sequence). Someembodiments may determine an embedding vector associated with an n-gramusing a model based on both the n-gram itself and the contextsurrounding the n-gram (e.g., other lexical items surrounding a lexicalitem, the corresponding embedding vectors, etc.). For example, someembodiments may use a bidirectional long short term memory (LSTM) neuralnetwork model or another recurrent neural network to generate encodingvectors. One such neural network model that may be used is described inEmbeddings from Language Models (ELMo), as described by Peters et al.(Peters, M. E., Neumann, M., Iyyer, M., Gardner, M., Clark, C., Lee, K.and Zettlemoyer, L., 1802. Deep contextualized word representations.arXiv 2018. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05365), which is herebyincorporated by reference in its entirety. By determining embeddingvectors or other learned representations of a set of words, a set oflexical items, or other n-grams based on their surrounding words,surrounding lexical items, or other context, some embodiments may encodedifferences in the meaning of text in cases where words or lexical itemsmay have similar or identical spelling.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may use amachine learning model such as a recurrent neural network model topredict or categorize values. For example, some embodiments may operateon unbounded sequences of n-grams or embedding vectors, where thesequences may be processed in the order of the sequence to maintain astate that is dependent on a current input and a previous state duringthe use of the recurrent neural network model. As described elsewhere inthis disclosure, the recurrence of the neural network layers of arecurrent neural network may be bidirectional, such that intermediateoutputs of a neural network layer may be processed in both a forward andbackward order to permit a state to encode future and past contexts. Insome embodiments, such as in the case of using a LSTM neural network orgated recurrent unit (GRU) neural network, neurons of a neural networkmay include internal memory gate parameters, where the internal memorygate parameters may modify stored state values in a manner analogous to‘remembering’ or ‘forgetting’ a past state when determining a futurevalue. Furthermore, one or more of the machine learning models describedin this disclosure may include deep neural networks, where deep neuralnetworks may include more than three neural network layers.

Some embodiments may also modify or otherwise update learning modelparameters based on a selected domain category associated with anatural-language-text document. For example, a machine learning modelmay use a first set of neural network model parameters associated with adomain category labeled “domain1” to generate embedding vectors for anembedding sequence of a first natural-language-text document in responseto a determination that the first natural-language-text document isassociated with the domain category “domain1.” In response to adetermination that a second natural language is associated with thedomain category “domain2,” some embodiments may select a second set ofneural network model parameters associated with a domain categorylabeled “domain2” to generate embedding vectors for an embeddingsequence of the second natural-language-text document. Furthermore, someembodiments may adaptively determine one or more model parameters basedon a selected or matched graph template using one or more operationsdescribed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/015,074, filed Sep. 7,2020, titled “ADAPTIVE PARAMETER TRANSFER FOR LEARNING MODELS,” which ishereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

Some embodiments may also determine a sequence of parts-of-speech valuesfor words, tokens, lexical items, or embedding vector representationsthereof, where different words or n-grams may share a sameparts-of-speech value. For example, some embodiments may use adictionary or stored set of definitions to assign values such as grammarcategories to different lexical items or other n-grams of a textsection, where some embodiments may assign a respective parts-of-speechvalue to each respective lexical item of a text section. As describedelsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may then use the sequenceof parts-of-speech values in combination with embedding vectors or othervalues to categorize a text section, determine a subject entity, ordetermine a text section indicating a proposition or portion of aproposition.

In some embodiments, operations of the process 300 may includedetermining a set of semantic triples or other data model objects thatinclude a set of category values based on the set of embedding sequencesusing a machine learning model, as indicated by block 324. In someembodiments, a semantic triple may include a first field, a secondfield, and a third field. The first field may represent a subjectentity, the second field may represent a category value indicating adeontic category, and the third field may represent another data entityrepresenting a proposition or text from the text section. For example,the first field of a semantic triple may be populated with the value“entity01,” where “entity01” is an identifier of a first entity storedin a list of authorized entities. The second field of the semantictriple may be populated with the value “right,” which may be selectedfrom a list of category values [“right”; “obligation”; “prohibition”],where the category value may be selected with respect to the first fieldvalue. The third field may be populated with the text from a textsection representing a proposition. Alternatively, or in addition, thethird field of the semantic triple may be populated with another datamodel object, such as a semantic double. For example, the third fieldmay be populated with the semantic double ‘(“to make”, “45 widgets”)’using a machine learning model to categorizing which sequence of stringscorrespond with a grammatical predicate and a grammatical object,respectively.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may use amachine learning model to determine one or more values used to populatefields a data model object such as a semantic triple or valuesassociated with a semantic triple. For example, some embodiments may usea trained neural network model to determine a verb predicate value and asubject entity of a clause. Also, as described elsewhere in thisdisclosure, some embodiments may use parts-of-speech values inconjunction with embedding vectors as inputs to a recurrent neuralnetwork model to determine category values or other values described inthis disclosure. For example, some embodiments may provide aconcatenation of an embedding sequence and a sequence of parts-of-speechvalues to a machine learning model during a first timestep to generatean intermediate output state including a corresponding intermediateoutput category value. Some embodiments may then, during a latertimestep, provide the intermediate output in conjunction with theembedding sequence and the parts-of-speech values to the recurrentneural network model to determine a first category value. For example,for a noninitial, non-terminal embedding vector of the first embeddingsequence, such as a third embedding vector of an embedding sequencehaving at least five embedding vectors, some embodiments may determineintermediate outputs using a recurrent neural network model that areused to generate subsequent outputs. For example, some embodiments mayuse a neural network layers of a neural network model to generate afirst intermediate output based on a first embedding vector representingthe first word of a clause. Some embodiments may then use the neuralnetwork layers to generate a second intermediate output based on boththe first intermediate output and a second embedding vector representinga second word of the clause and use the neural network layers togenerate a third intermediate output based on both the secondintermediate output and a third embedding vector representing a thirdword of the clause. Some embodiments may repeat the above operations ofusing a previous output as an inputs for later iterative uses of aneural network model to determine a final output, such as a categoryvalue.

Some embodiments may determine semantic triple directly from text of atext section without using embedding vectors or other learnedrepresentations of the text sections. Some embodiments may determine asemantic triple based on matching keywords or metadata tags thatindicate which portions of a text sections map to a field of a datamodel object. For example, some embodiments may receive an indicationthat a text section includes a semantic triple using a set ofpattern-matching operations that causes a determination that any phraseincluding the word “must” is a condition of a conditional statement thatis then reduced to one or more semantic triples.

Some embodiments may determine a set of candidate subject entities basedon an embedding sequence using a machine learning model. For example,some embodiments may use a trained machine learning model to predictwhich sequence of strings to identify as a subject entity identifier.Some embodiments may then compare the candidate subject entities to astored set of entities, where the stored set of entities may berepresented as a stored set of entity identifiers indicating entitieshaving user accounts. Some embodiments may detect that a set of n-gramsidentifying a candidate subject entity is directly stored in arepository storing records representing a stored set of entityidentifiers. Alternatively, some embodiments may detect that a set ofn-grams identifying a candidate subject entity is a subset of a secondentity, where the second entity is stored in a repository storingrecords representing a stored set of entity identifiers. For example,some embodiments may determine that “loan originator” is a candidatesubject entity. Some embodiments may then determine that “loanoriginator” is a role assigned to an entity identified as “entity123.”In response to detecting the indirect identification of an entity, someembodiments may then determine that the candidate subject entity is anentity identified by the stored set of entity identifiers and populate asubject entity field of a semantic triple or other data model objectwith the candidate subject entity.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may use theembedding sequence to determine a set of values based on the embeddingsequence, where the set values may include an entity identifier, acategory value representing a deontic category, a semantic double, orthe like. Some embodiments may extract text sections of anatural-language-text document and store the text sections in the formof a directed graph structure, where graph vertices of the directedgraph structure may represent clauses, and where graph edges of thedirected graph may correspond with parent-child relationships betweenclauses or other indicated references between clauses. Some embodimentsmay further augment vertices or edges with associated information suchas the corresponding clause text or a data model object extracted fromthe clause text.

Some embodiments may determine a sets of linkage scores betweendifferent embedding vectors of embedding sequences. For example, someembodiments may, for each pair of embedding vectors of a first embeddingsequence, determine a respective linkage score using a machine learningmodel in conjunction with a set of learning model parameters retrievedfrom a repository of machine learning model parameters. In someembodiments, the linkage score may be determined as a summation oversome or all embedding-pair scores of an embedding sequence indicating alikelihood that an n-gram will follow another n-gram. For example, anembedding-pair score between a first word and a second word may be or bebased on a likelihood that a pair of words or other n-grams may followeach other (“pairwise likelihood”) in an extractive summary. Someembodiments may use a set of learning model parameters obtained bytraining a machine learning model with a training set to determinepairwise likelihoods, where training the machine learning model mayinclude minimizing or maximizing an objective function result of anobjective function.

Various objective functions may be used, where a choice of an objectivefunction or a loss function used to generate the objective function maybe used to determine the effect that a context surrounding a word,phrase, or other n-gram has on a predicted value. Furthermore, someembodiments may perform a text extraction operation in multiple phasesusing a machine learning model. Some embodiments may compute a set ofword-pair scores between each pair of words using a set of machinelearning model parameters to determine a verb predicate value of a textsection, where a verb predicate value may include a sequence ofcharacters representing a verb used to join a clause subject with aclause object. For example, some embodiments may use a binary predicatedetection algorithm by determining a set of probabilities and thendetermining a set of pairwise likelihoods indicating the likelihood thatembedding vectors are paired (e.g., follow). In some embodiments, thepairwise likelihoods may be used to determine a loss term or otherlinkage score, where the linkage score may have the expression“−(1−p)log(1−{circumflex over (p)}_(θ))−p log {circumflex over(p)}_(θ),” where p may represent a training probability obtained from atraining set and {circumflex over (p)}_(θ) may represent a predictedprobability determined with the use of a machine learning model. Asdescribed in this disclosure, a linkage score may include any scoreindicating a relationship between different words, n-grams, or embeddingvectors of a same text section or different text sections. Someembodiments may use summation over some or all of the embedding vectorsof one or more clauses as an objective function result when training amachine learning model to minimize this loss function to determine a setof machine learning model parameters for the machine learning model.Various other loss functions may be used when performing a set oftraining operations. For example, some embodiments may use, as a lossfunction, the expression for a sum “Σ_(l)p_(l) log {circumflex over(p)}_(θ,l)”, where l may represent an index value for the indicescorresponding with verb predicate labels. Some embodiments may use theloss function to determine an objective function based on a sum over thesums used to train a machine learning model, where the sum over the sumcauses the summation of the respective sum for each n-gram and eachclause of a natural-language-text document.

Some embodiments may use one or more loss component expressionsdescribed above to train a machine learning model to recognize apredicate value, where a machine learning model may be trained tominimize or maximize a corresponding objective function result todetermine which n-grams of a clause or other text section is a verbpredicate. It should also be noted that the above examples of a lossfunction or objective function are examples, and other loss functions orobjectives functions may be used. Furthermore, some embodiments mayfurther cross-reference detected predicate values with a set of wordsrepresenting of negation terminology, such as “become unable” or “fail.”As described elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may assign atag to an association between data model objects or with one or morecategories based on a detection of a word stored in the set of wordsrepresenting negation terminology. Furthermore, some embodiments mayperform one or more validation operations to determine whether adetected predicate value is listed. For example, some embodiments mayassign a verb detected by a machine learning operation as a predicatevalue after validating the verb. In some embodiments, such validationmay be performed by determining whether the verb is a value of a storedset of predicate values.

After determining a verb predicate of a text section, some embodimentsmay classify a subject entity or object entity of a text section. Someembodiments may determine a subject entity or an object entity based ona detected verb predicate using one or more operations described inpatent application 63/134,872, filed on Jan. 7, 2021, titled “STRUCTUREDSEMANTIC CONTRACT MAPS.” For example, to determine a subject entity oran object entity, some embodiments may train a machine learning modelusing a joint binary classification algorithm by minimizing a totalcross-entropy loss based on a detected verb predicate. Some embodimentsmay use a same machine learning model used to determine the set ofpredicate values, where a different set of learning model parameters maybe used to detect subject or object values. Alternatively, or inaddition, some embodiments may use a different machine learning model.For example, some embodiments may use a transformer neural network modelto determine a predicate value and use a GRU neural network model todetermine a subject entity. Various types of entropy loss formulationsmay be used, where some embodiments may use an entropy loss formulationthat determines loss terms between each subject or object n-gram and adetected predicate value. Some embodiments may then use the determinedsubject identified by the machine learning model to determine a subjectentity for a semantic triple.

Some embodiments may perform one or more delimiting operations todetermine a subject entity to populate a field of a semantic triple orother data model object. Some embodiments may use a hybrid approach tocombine different information extraction techniques. For example, someembodiments may delimit a first continuous subsection of text (e.g., aleft continuous subsection) of a sequence and then using a neuralnetwork or another machine learning model to determine a category valuebased on the delimited section. The continuous subsection of text may bedetermined based on a sequence position that is associated with adetected verb predicate or other predicate value. For example, someembodiments may use a machine learning model to determine that a clauseincludes the verb predicate “to make.” Some embodiments may thendetermine that the verb predicate “to make” is at a sequence position“90,” where the sequence position may be at an initiating position orterminal position of the verb predicate. Some embodiments may thendetermine subject entity based on a continuous subsection of text thatbegins at the start of a clause and ends at the sequence position 90.Similarly, some embodiments may determine an object entity or otherobject value based on a second continuous subsection that begins at thesequence position 90 and ends at the end of the clause.

Some embodiments may use a set of linkage score to determine a subjectentity or object entity, where the set of linkage scores may be equal toor based on linkage probabilities between words or other n-grams of aclause or embedding sequence of the clause. For example, someembodiments may implement a Viterbi algorithm or beam search algorithmto determine a subject entity of a clause based on a set of linkagescores between pairs of n-grams of the clause, where the set of linkagescores may indicate pairwise likelihoods that corresponding pairs ofwords or other n-grams follow each other. Some embodiments may determinea first set of linkage scores between embedding vectors of the firstembedding sequence by, for each respective pair of embedding vectors ofthe first embedding sequence, determining a respective linkage score.Some embodiments may then determine a set of partial objectivesindicating a total probability value that a prediction ends in apredicted n-gram based on the first set of linkage scores. For example,a partial objective may be equal to the expression “J(α)=Σ_(i=0) ^(m)log {circumflex over (p)}_(α) _(i) _(α) _(i+1) ,” where {circumflex over(p)}_(α) _(i) _(α) _(i+1) may represent a predicted probability value.Some embodiments may quickly compute a set of summation values torepresent partial objectives for each iteration, where the summationvalue J(j) may be computed as

$``{{{J(j)} = {{\max\limits_{0 \leq i < j}{J(i)}} + {\log{\hat{p}}_{i,j}}}},}"$

where i and j may represent a linkage probability or other linkage scorebetween an n-gram at position i and an n-gram at position j. Thesummation value of the set of logs of the probability values may becomputed for a threshold number of iterations to determine a maximumsummation value of a set of summation values comprising summation valuescomputed at each iteration. Some embodiments may then determine asubject entity based on the maximum summation value of a set of computedsummation values.

Some embodiments may use a breadth first search, such as a beam search,to determine a subject entity or an object entity. For example, someembodiments may use a beam search having a beam width of k to determinea subject entity. When implementing a beam search operation, someembodiments may maintain a list of k best candidate paths, where k maybe an integer. At each timestep of the beam search operation, the k bestcandidate paths are expanded one step in all possible ways, where thecandidate paths may then be sorted and filtered to the k best candidatepaths based on their updated likelihood values. Some embodiments mayperform these operations for a threshold number of iterations to thenuse the most likely subject entity as the predicted subject entity.

Some embodiments may generate and use a set of attention values toperform one or more NLP operations to extract or categorize the text ofa natural-language-text document, where the attention values may be usedto weigh or otherwise modify an output of a neural network. Variousmethods may be used to determine or use attention values. For example,some embodiments may use a multi-headed attention-based autoencoder,such as autoencoders using a model similar to those described by Vaswaniet al. (Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit,Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin.“Attention is all you need.” In Advances in neural informationprocessing systems, pp. 5998-6008. 2017, arXiv:1706.03762) or Devlin etal. (Devlin, J., Chang, M. W., Lee, K. and Toutanova, K., 2018. Bert:Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for languageunderstanding. arXiv preprint arXiv: 1810.04805), which are incorporatedby reference in their entirety.

Some embodiments may perform a set of training operations on a set oftraining documents to determine a set of query vectors, key vectors, andvalue vectors for each attention head of a multi-headed attention modelduring training. A query vector may indicate an n-gram position(s) in asequence of n-grams, a key vector indicating the n-gram positions in then-gram sequence, and a value vector may indicate a value generated fromthe text of the n-gram. During a training operation, some embodimentsmay learn the three vectors and combine them with each other query, key,and value vectors, respectively, of other n-grams of a text sectionbeing analyzed to generate a query matrix, key matrix, and value matrixfor the text section. Some embodiments may then perform a set ofelement-wise operations, where the element-wise operations includeperforming a matrix multiplication operation between the query matrixand the key matrix and then multiplying a transpose of the resultingmatrix with the value matrix to determine attention-weighted token forthe n-grams of a text section. Some embodiments may then perform theabove operations using different query, key, and value matrices for eachattention head of a multi-headed attention model and concatenate theresulting matrices together to determine an output matrix. Someembodiments may then provide the output matrix as an input to a set offeed forward neural network layers to determine an additional set ofoutputs that may then be further processed to be decoded by a decodingneural network layer, where the decoding neural network layer mayprovide be used to provide one or more predictions. For example, thedecoding neural network layer may be used to predict a category valuerepresenting a deontic category, such as whether a clause represents a“right,” “obligation,” or “prohibition.”

Some embodiments may encode a data model object of a self-executingprotocol in a programming language or another type of formal language.For example, a semantic triple or other data model object may be storedas a data structure encoding three different fields in a domain-specificprogramming language, a structured data format such as JSON, or thelike. In some embodiments, a semantic triple, semantic double, or otherdata model object may be a part of or otherwise be associated with aconditional statement as a condition of the conditional statements. Forexample, some embodiments may use an encoded proposition of a semantictriple to generate a document. Alternatively, or in addition, values ofa semantic triple or other data model object may be included in part orin whole as a set of conditions or outcome subroutines of a conditionalstatement.

In some embodiments, operations of the process 300 may includedetermining a set of associations between semantic triples or other datamodel objects based on a set of shared parameters of the data modelobjects or corresponding text sections, as indicated by block 332. Someembodiments may generate a set of semantic triples that are associatedwith each other using metadata based on text sections of thenatural-language-text document. The association between a pair ofdifferent semantic triples or another pair of data model objects may begenerated based on direct references between field values of the pair ordata model objects. For example, a shared parameter between two datamodel objects may include a shared field value between a pair of datamodel objects. The shared parameter may be in the same respective fieldbetween the pair of data models. For example, some embodiments maygenerate a first semantic triple that includes the section text title“3.21(a)” and a second semantic triple that includes the section texttitle “3.21(a)(i).” Upon a determination that both section text titlefields include the text “3.21(a), some embodiments may associate thefirst semantic triple with the second semantic triple. Alternatively,the shared parameter may be in different fields. For example, someembodiments may generate a first semantic triple that includes the text“to provide entity_2 with an amount of memory according to section3.21(a),” generate a second semantic triple that includes the identifier“3.21(a).” Upon a determination that the second semantic triple includesthe identifier “3.21(a),” some embodiments may associate the firstsemantic triple with the second semantic triple.

In some embodiments, a shared parameter between two data model objectsmay include a shared parameter between two text sections used togenerate the pair of semantic triples. A shared parameter between twotext sections may include a shared text sub-section, a shared parenttext header, a shared document identifier, or the like. For example, afirst clause may include or be a part of a text section identified bythe identifier “section 3.21(a)(ii)” and a second clause may include orbe a part of a second text section identified by the identifier “section3.21(a)(iii).” Some embodiments may then determine that a first datamodel object that is generated from the first text section is associatedwith a second data model object that is generated from the second textsection based on both text sections sharing the parent identifier“section 3.21(a).”

Alternatively, or in addition, a shared parameter between two textsections may include indirect references to a share parameter. Forexample, a shared parameter between two data model objects may include afirst data model object that includes or is otherwise based on a firstclause indicating that a first entity has an obligation “to delete alldata listed in sections related to a user account within 30 days.” Someembodiments may then use an NLP operation to analyze a second clausethat recites, “administrator may revoke moderator access privileges uponfailure to delete all data results” and determine that the second clauseis associated with a third clause reciting “moderator has right toaccess user accounts based on access privileges.” Based on the above,some embodiments may determine that the first and second data modelobjects are associated with each other, where some embodiments mayassociate an indicated proposition of the first data model object to thesecond data model object. For example, some embodiments may determinethat the first data model object includes the semantic triple“(“allocator”, “obligation”, (“to allocate”, “300 units”))” and that asecond data model object includes the semantic triple “(“receiver”,“right”, (“to allocate”, “300 units”))”

Some embodiments may store data model objects and associations betweendata model objects in a directed graph. In some embodiments, a graphvertex of a directed graph may be stored as a single record.Alternatively, or in addition, some embodiments may store a graph vertexof a directed graph as a plurality of records or as values of aplurality of records. For example, some embodiments may store a firstarray that includes graph vertex identifiers, where sub-arraysidentified by the graph vertex identifiers include pointers to theaddress of other values stored in other records that are indexed by adifferent set of identifiers. A record of the graph vertex may include arespective graph vertex identifier and a respective set of values storedat a corresponding address of other values indicated by a respective setof pointers associated with the respective graph vertex identifier, evenif the other values are stored in a second record.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments mayassociate each graph vertex of the directed graph with its semantictriple or other data model object. For example, some embodiments may,for each semantic triple of a set of semantic triples, add a graphvertex to a directed graph that includes or is otherwise associated withan entity identified by the semantic triple, a category valuerepresenting a deontic category, and a set of text determined by amachine learning model to include a proposition. In some embodiments,the graph vertex may also include the text section used to generategraph vertex. Alternatively, some embodiments may store or otherwiseassociate multiple semantic triples with a graph vertex. For example,some embodiments may generate a graph vertex based on detected sectionsof a natural-language-text document using a machine learning model,where each graph section may include data extracted from multiplesemantic triples based on listed entities of the semantic triples.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, a conditional statement maybe structured to use data obtained from one or more data model objects,such as semantic triples or semantic doubles, in a condition or anoutcome of the conditional statement. Some embodiments may generate aconditional statement based on a set of data model objects andassociations between data model objects. For example, some embodimentsmay determine that a first semantic triple is associated with a seconddata model object using one or more operations described above. Theassociation may be assigned with the category of “outcome,” where thefirst semantic triple may include a category value “obligation” withrespect to a first entity “entity_1,” and where the proposition may bestored as “provide twenty kilojoules to entity_2.” Similarly, the secondsemantic triple may include a category value “right” with respect to asecond entity “entity_2,” where the proposition may be stored as “takethirty kilojoules from entity_1 in four days.” Some embodiments may thengenerate a natural language text that recites “if entity_1 does notprovide twenty kilojoules to entity_2, entity_2 is permitted to takethirty kilojoules from entity_1 in four days.” Alternatively, or inaddition, some embodiments may generate a computer-interpretableconditional statement such as “if provided(entity_1, entity_2, 20) false{allocate(entity_1, entity_2, 30, 4)}.”

In some embodiments, operations of the process 300 may include causingthe presentation of a visualization including shapes representingsemantic triples or text associated with semantic triples and a set ofassociations between semantic triples, as indicated by block 336. Asused in this disclosure, a shape may include a line, a polygonal shape,an ovaloid shape or another type of curved shape, or the like. Forexample, a first shape may include text of a first text section, whereUI elements of the shape, UI elements that partially or completelyoverlap the shape, or UI elements that are in proximity to the shape mayindicate elements of a data model object. For example, a UI elementwithin a shape may include an indication of an entity having an accountin an account record, an indication of whether the data model objectstores a proposition that is a right, obligation, or prohibition withrespect to the entity, proposition text such as a sequence of wordsdetermined to be part of a verb predicate or an object, or the like.

In some embodiments, operations of the process 300 may include storing adata structure that includes the semantic triples or other data modelobjects generated from the natural-language-text document andassociations between the data model objects in memory, as indicated byblock 340. Various data structures may be used to store structured datagenerated from a natural-language-text document. For example, someembodiments may store the data structure in a resource descriptionframework (RDF) database (i.e., triplestore database). As describedelsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may store structured datain a SQL database, a key-value pair database, or another type ofdatabase. In some embodiments, storing a data structure that includesthe generated data model objects may include serializing the datastructure and then storing the serialized form of the data structure.Some embodiments may store the data model in a non-volatile localpersistent memory device, such as a spinning hard drive or solid-statedrive. Alternatively, or in addition, storing the data model objects mayinclude storing the data structure on a decentralized, tamper-evidentdata store. For example, some embodiments may store one or more dataobject models on a decentralized tamper-evident data store such as theInterplanetary File System. Furthermore, during or after storing asemantic map or other structured data, some embodiments may combineconditional statements with other semantic maps. For example, someembodiments may perform operations to determine an aggregated parameterby combining parameters of data model objects using one or moreoperations described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/015,042,filed Sep. 7, 2020, titled “MULTIGRAPH VERIFICATION,” which is herebyincorporated by reference in its entirety.

FIG. 4 shows an example visualization of a semantic map generated from anatural-language-text document, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present techniques. As stated elsewhere in this disclosure, someembodiments may store structured data generated fromnatural-language-text documents in a graph database. In someembodiments, a version of a graph data structure may include graphvertices that represent different sections of a natural-language-textdocument, conditional statements extracted from a natural-language-textdocument, data model objects such as semantic triples or semanticdoubles of the conditional statements, subjects obtained from the datamodel objects, or the like. The graph visualization 400 includes a firstlabel 404 representing a text section header, where the text “section2.11 prepayment of loans” may be directly extracted from anatural-language-text document. The first label 404 represent a parenttext header that is a header for the text sections used to generate agraph vertex 416. In some embodiments, the properties associated with agraph vertex may be used as a category value for the graph vertex andany text section represented by the graph vertex or otherwise be used toindicate a category value.

The graph vertex 416 indicates a portion of a conditional statement thatincludes a previous condition “net proceeds received” that must besatisfied and stores this previous condition in the property“/Condition.” As described elsewhere in this disclosure, someembodiments may use a machine learning model to extract this informationinto a set of data model objects and then use the set of data modelobjects to determine a graph vertex. Similarly, some embodiments may usethe machine learning model to extract other elements and assign them toproperties associated with the graph vertex 416 such as “/Term.” Someembodiments may use the machine learning model to generate a semantictriple that is representable in the text form “(‘Borrower’,‘Obligation’, ‘shall prepay or cause to be prepaid term borrowing’).”Some embodiments may then use this triple to augment the graph vertexwith the property“/parent borrower obligation [activated]: shall prepayor cause to be prepaid term borrowing.” Some embodiments may furtheraugment a graph vertex representing a text section with quantitativevalues extracted from a text section. For example, the graph vertex 416may include the text “/Qualification”, where the term “/Qualification”may indicate additional data that may be relevant to a condition oroutcome of an obligation, right, or prohibition.

As described elsewhere in this disclosure, some embodiments may use oneor more machine learning models to label different text sections of anatural-language-text document based on learning parameters, keywordmatches, key lexical item matches, or the like. For example, someembodiments may then determine, based on a shared header of the firsttext section and a second text section, that a graph vertex 424 is achild vertex of the graph vertex 416, where the shared header includesthe text “section 2.11 (c).” Some embodiments may use a machine learningmodel to determine that the text used to generate the graph vertex 424includes a negation term “shall not” and, based on a detection of thenegation term, label the association between graph vertex 424 and thegraph vertex 416 with the category value “Exceptions,” as indicated bythe label 420. Based on the text of the text section associated with thelabel “section 2.11(c)(iii),” some embodiments may further determinethat this corresponds with a cancellation event of a previously recitedobligation indicated by the graph vertex 416.

As indicated by the graph visualization 400, some embodiments mayassociate multiple graph vertices as child vertices of a parent vertex.For example, the graph visualization 400 further includes a graph vertex428 and a graph vertex 432, which are shown as child vertices of thegraph vertex 424. The graph vertex 428 may be generated based on a textsection labeled with a text header “Section 2.11 (c) (iii) (A).” Thegraph vertex 432 may be generated based a second text header “Section2.11 (c) (iii) (B).” Some embodiments may determine that the graphvertex 428 is a child vertex of the graph vertex 424 based on adetermination that the graph vertex 428 and the graph vertex 432 sharesthe text section label “Section.211(c)(iii)” with the graph vertex 424.

FIG. 5 shows an example user interface of a self-executing protocolsearch interface, in accordance with some embodiments of the presenttechniques. Some embodiments may provide a UI that displays options fora user to generate a query through a data structure generated from anatural-language-text document, or the like. The UI 500 may provide a UIelement 504 to indicate a specific search type such as a target outcome,as indicated by the UI element 506. In some embodiments, the UI 500 maybe displayed on a client computing device, where the code to present theUI 500 may be sent from a server or cloud computing service. The UIelement 508 may indicate one or more search filters of the search typeindicated by the UI element 506. The first category search bar 510 maybe a UI element that allows a user to select one or more category valuesused by the search filter indicated by the UI element 508. Someembodiments may further include a UI element 516 that indicates thatcategory values displayed in the UI element 518 applies to an entityidentified by the UI element 516. For example, the search indicated bythe UI 500 includes a filter for text sections categorized with thecategory value “right” for the entity “entity 1.” The UI 500 includes aUI element 520 that indicates the category values displayed in the UIelement 522, which may indicate that the search should a filter for textsections categorized with the category value “right” for the entity“entity 2.”

In some embodiments, an interaction between the user and the UI element526 may cause a client computing device to submit a web message thatincludes a query to a server. After receiving the query, someembodiments may provide a response to the client computing device thatmay include a query result. Some embodiments may provide the queryresult in the form of text data used to provide a summary of textsections corresponding to each of the entities, where a first summary530 indicates to text sections of a natural-language-text documentassociated with a category value “right” corresponding with the entity“Entity 1.” Similarly, some embodiments may provide a second summary 540that indicates text sections of the natural in which document associatedwith a category value “right” corresponding with the entity “Entity 2.”

FIG. 6 shows an example user interface of a self-executing protocolsearch result, in accordance with some embodiments of the presenttechniques. Some embodiments may provide a UI 600 that displays a searchresult for a query of a data structure generated from anatural-language-text document. The UI 600 may include a first searchsummary 610 that includes a first box 611, a second box 612, and a thirdbox 613. The first box 611 may include a section title “Section 6.05Asset Sale,” an indication of a category value “right,” and a set ofn-grams representing a proposition “to permit disposition.” As describedelsewhere, some embodiments may use a machine learning model to converttext of the natural-language-text document that has been associated withthe text section labeled “Section 6.05 Asset Sale” into text of thenatural-language-text document. The second box 612 may include a sectiontitle “Section 6.01 Indebtedness,” a second indication of the categoryvalue “right,” and a set of n-grams representing a proposition “topermit indebtedness.” The third box 613 indicates a count of the directroutes and indirect routes with respect to state changes that may resultto the activation, cancellation, or triggering of section 2.11(c),represented by the shape 630, which may represent a first graph vertexcorresponding with the text section labeled “section 2.11(c).”

The UI 600 also includes a graph window 620 that displays avisualization that includes a first shape 622 representing a secondgraph vertex, where the first shape 622 renders a text sectionidentifier “Section 2.11(h) Declined Amount” and two text linescorresponding with two different semantic triples corresponding with twodifferent entities. The first text line includes the text “lender: notaccept mandatory prepayment” and is in visual proximity with the symbol“(R)”. As indicated by the key 690, the symbol “(R)” represents thecategory value “right,” the symbol “(P)” represents the category value“prohibition,” and the symbol “(O)” represents the category value“obligation.” In addition, the key 690 may include symbols for acontract state associated with a text section. For example, the key 690indicates that the symbol “(E)” indicates that a graph vertex of a smartcontract is associated with an event and that the symbol “(D)” indicatesthat a route between graph vertices representing associations betweendata model objects is a direct route. In addition, the key 690 mayindicate properties of an association between a semantic triples,conditional statements, or graph vertices that include data obtainedfrom semantic triples or corresponding text sections. Furthermore, asshown in the shape 622, some embodiments may display a shape thatindicates different deontic categories with respect to different subjectentities, where the shape 622 indicates that the subject entity “Lender”has a right listed in section 2.11(h) and that the subject entity“Borrower” has an obligation listed in the section 2.11(h).

The shape 623 may be an arrow that connects the shape 622 with the shape630, where the shape 623 may be generated based on a detectedassociation between the first and second graph vertices. The UI 600 alsoincludes a visual indicator 624 that indicates that the associationbetween the first and second graph vertices is a direct route, where adirect route may indicate that the text section used to generate theshape 622 may be in a same shared text section as the text section usedto generate the shape 630. Furthermore, as shown in the shape 630, someembodiments may store or retrieve indicators or events that triggered aconditional statement associated with a graph vertex, such as “ParentBorrower or Restricted Subsidiary: Net Proceeds received” or “PrepaymentEvent.”

FIG. 7 show a computer system for generating a data structure based on anatural-language-text document, in accordance with some embodiments ofthe present techniques. FIG. 7 is a diagram that illustrates anexemplary computer system 700 in accordance with embodiments of thepresent technique. Various portions of systems and methods describedherein, may include or be executed on one or more computer systemssimilar to computer system 700. Further, processes and modules describedherein may be executed by one or more processing systems similar to thatof computer system 700.

Computer system 700 may include one or more processors (e.g., processors710 a-710 n) coupled to system memory 720, an input/output I/O deviceinterface 730, and a network interface 740 via an input/output (I/O)interface 750. A processor may include a single processor or a pluralityof processors (e.g., distributed processors). A processor may be anysuitable processor capable of executing or otherwise performinginstructions. A processor may include a central processing unit (CPU)that carries out program instructions to perform the arithmetical,logical, and input/output operations of computer system 700. A processormay execute code (e.g., processor firmware, a protocol stack, a databasemanagement system, an operating system, or a combination thereof) thatcreates an execution environment for program instructions. A processormay include a programmable processor. A processor may include general orspecial purpose microprocessors. A processor may receive instructionsand data from a memory (e.g., system memory 720). Computer system 700may be a uni-processor system including one processor (e.g., processor710 a), or a multi-processor system including any number of suitableprocessors (e.g., 710 a-710 n). Multiple processors may be employed toprovide for parallel or sequential execution of one or more portions ofthe techniques described herein. Processes, such as logic flows,described herein may be performed by one or more programmable processorsexecuting one or more computer programs to perform functions byoperating on input data and generating corresponding output. Processesdescribed herein may be performed by, and apparatus can also beimplemented as, special purpose logic circuitry, e.g., an FPGA (fieldprogrammable gate array) or an ASIC (application specific integratedcircuit). Computer system 700 may include a plurality of computingdevices (e.g., distributed computer systems) to implement variousprocessing functions.

I/O device interface 730 may provide an interface for connection of oneor more I/O devices 760 to computer system 700. I/O devices may includedevices that receive input (e.g., from a user) or output information(e.g., to a user). I/O devices 760 may include, for example, graphicalUI presented on displays (e.g., a cathode ray tube (CRT) or liquidcrystal display (LCD) monitor), pointing devices (e.g., a computer mouseor trackball), keyboards, keypads, touchpads, scanning devices, voicerecognition devices, gesture recognition devices, printers, audiospeakers, microphones, cameras, or the like. I/O devices 760 may beconnected to computer system 700 through a wired or wireless connection.I/O devices 760 may be connected to computer system 700 from a remotelocation. I/O devices 760 located on remote computer system, forexample, may be connected to computer system 700 via a network andnetwork interface 740.

Network interface 740 may include a network adapter that provides forconnection of computer system 700 to a network. Network interface may740 may facilitate data exchange between computer system 700 and otherdevices connected to the network. Network interface 740 may supportwired or wireless communication. The network may include an electroniccommunication network, such as the Internet, a local area network (LAN),a wide area network (WAN), a cellular communications network, or thelike.

System memory 720 may be configured to store program instructions 724 ordata 715. Program instructions 724 may be executable by a processor(e.g., one or more of processors 710 a-710 n) to implement one or moreembodiments of the present techniques. Program instructions 724 mayinclude modules of computer program instructions for implementing one ormore techniques described herein with regard to various processingmodules. Program instructions may include a computer program (which incertain forms is known as a program, software, software application,script, or code). A computer program may be written in a programminglanguage, including compiled or interpreted languages, or declarative orprocedural languages. A computer program may include a unit suitable foruse in a computing environment, including as a stand-alone program, amodule, a component, or a subroutine. A computer program may or may notcorrespond to a file in a file system. A program may be stored in aportion of a file that holds other programs or data (e.g., one or morescripts stored in a markup language document), in a single filededicated to the program in question, or in multiple coordinated files(e.g., files that store one or more modules, sub programs, or portionsof code). A computer program may be deployed to be executed on one ormore computer processors located locally at one site or distributedacross multiple remote sites and interconnected by a communicationnetwork.

System memory 720 may include a tangible program carrier having programinstructions stored thereon. A tangible program carrier may include anon-transitory computer readable storage medium. A non-transitorycomputer readable storage medium may include a machine-readable storagedevice, a machine-readable storage substrate, a memory device, or anycombination thereof. Non-transitory computer readable storage medium mayinclude non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM,EEPROM memory), volatile memory (e.g., random access memory (RAM),static random access memory (SRAM), synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM)),bulk storage memory (e.g., CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, hard drives), or the like.System memory 720 may include a non-transitory computer readable storagemedium that may have program instructions stored thereon that areexecutable by a computer processor (e.g., one or more of processors 710a-710 n) to cause the subject matter and the functional operationsdescribed herein. A memory (e.g., system memory 720) may include asingle memory device or a plurality of memory devices (e.g., distributedmemory devices). Instructions or other program code to provide thefunctionality described herein may be stored on a tangible,non-transitory computer readable media. In some cases, the entire set ofinstructions may be stored concurrently on the media, or in some cases,different parts of the instructions may be stored on the same media atdifferent times.

I/O interface 750 may be configured to coordinate I/O traffic betweenprocessors 710 a-710 n, system memory 720, network interface 740, I/Odevices 760, or other peripheral devices. I/O interface 750 may performprotocol, timing, or other data transformations to convert data signalsfrom one component (e.g., system memory 720) into a format suitable foruse by another component (e.g., processors 710 a-710 n). I/O interface750 may include support for devices attached through various types ofperipheral buses, such as a variant of the Peripheral ComponentInterconnect (PCI) bus standard or the Universal Serial Bus (USB)standard.

Embodiments of the techniques described herein may be implemented usinga single instance of computer system 700 or multiple computer systems700 configured to host different portions or instances of embodiments.Multiple computer systems 700 may provide for parallel or sequentialprocessing/execution of one or more portions of the techniques describedherein.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that computer system 700 ismerely illustrative and is not intended to limit the scope of thetechniques described herein. Computer system 700 may include anycombination of devices or software that may perform or otherwise providefor the performance of the techniques described herein. For example,computer system 700 may include or be a combination of a cloud-computersystem, a data center, a server rack, a server, a virtual server, adesktop computer, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a server device,a client device, a mobile telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA),a mobile audio or video player, a game console, a vehicle-mountedcomputer, or a Global Positioning System (GPS), or the like. Computersystem 700 may also be connected to other devices that are notillustrated or may operate as a stand-alone system. In addition, thefunctionality provided by the illustrated components may in someembodiments be combined in fewer components or distributed in additionalcomponents. Similarly, in some embodiments, the functionality of some ofthe illustrated components may not be provided or other additionalfunctionality may be available.

In block diagrams, illustrated components are depicted as discretefunctional blocks, but embodiments are not limited to systems in whichthe functionality described herein is organized as illustrated. Thefunctionality provided by each of the components may be provided bysoftware or hardware modules that are differently organized than ispresently depicted, for example such software or hardware may beintermingled, conjoined, replicated, broken up, distributed (e.g. withina data center or geographically), or otherwise differently organized.The functionality described herein may be provided by one or moreprocessors of one or more computers executing code stored on a tangible,non-transitory, machine readable medium. In some cases, notwithstandinguse of the singular term “medium,” the instructions may be distributedon different storage devices associated with different computingdevices, for instance, with each computing device having a differentsubset of the instructions, an implementation consistent with usage ofthe singular term “medium” herein. In some cases, third party contentdelivery networks may host some or all of the information conveyed overnetworks, in which case, to the extent information (e.g., content) issaid to be supplied or otherwise provided, the information may providedby sending instructions to retrieve that information from a contentdelivery network.

The reader should appreciate that the present application describesseveral independently useful techniques. Rather than separating thosetechniques into multiple isolated patent applications, applicants havegrouped these techniques into a single document because their relatedsubject matter lends itself to economies in the application process. Butthe distinct advantages and aspects of such techniques should not beconflated. In some cases, embodiments address all of the deficienciesnoted herein, but it should be understood that the techniques areindependently useful, and some embodiments address only a subset of suchproblems or offer other, unmentioned benefits that will be apparent tothose of skill in the art reviewing the present disclosure. Due to costsconstraints, some techniques disclosed herein may not be presentlyclaimed and may be claimed in later filings, such as continuationapplications or by amending the present claims. Similarly, due to spaceconstraints, neither the Abstract nor the Summary of the Inventionsections of the present document should be taken as containing acomprehensive listing of all such techniques or all aspects of suchtechniques.

It should be understood that the description and the drawings are notintended to limit the present techniques to the particular formdisclosed, but to the contrary, the intention is to cover allmodifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spiritand scope of the present techniques as defined by the appended claims.Further modifications and alternative embodiments of various aspects ofthe techniques will be apparent to those skilled in the art in view ofthis description. Accordingly, this description and the drawings are tobe construed as illustrative only and are for the purpose of teachingthose skilled in the art the general manner of carrying out the presenttechniques. It is to be understood that the forms of the presenttechniques shown and described herein are to be taken as examples ofembodiments. Elements and materials may be substituted for thoseillustrated and described herein, parts and processes may be reversed oromitted, and certain features of the present techniques may be utilizedindependently, all as would be apparent to one skilled in the art afterhaving the benefit of this description of the present techniques.Changes may be made in the elements described herein without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the present techniques as described in thefollowing claims. Headings used herein are for organizational purposesonly and are not meant to be used to limit the scope of the description.

As used throughout this application, the word “may” is used in apermissive sense (i.e., meaning having the potential to), rather thanthe mandatory sense (i.e., meaning must). The words “include”,“including”, and “includes” and the like mean including, but not limitedto. As used throughout this application, the singular forms “a,” “an,”and “the” include plural referents unless the content explicitlyindicates otherwise. Thus, for example, reference to “an element” or “aelement” includes a combination of two or more elements, notwithstandinguse of other terms and phrases for one or more elements, such as “one ormore.” The term “or” is, unless indicated otherwise, non-exclusive,i.e., encompassing both “and” and “or.” Terms describing conditionalrelationships, e.g., “in response to X, Y,” “upon X, Y,”, “if X, Y,”“when X, Y,” and the like, encompass causal relationships in which theantecedent is a necessary causal condition, the antecedent is asufficient causal condition, or the antecedent is a contributory causalcondition of the consequent, e.g., “state X occurs upon condition Yobtaining” is generic to “X occurs solely upon Y” and “X occurs upon Yand Z.” Such conditional relationships are not limited to consequencesthat instantly follow the antecedent obtaining, as some consequences maybe delayed, and in conditional statements, antecedents are connected totheir consequents, e.g., the antecedent is relevant to the likelihood ofthe consequent occurring. Statements in which a plurality of attributesor functions are mapped to a plurality of objects (e.g., one or moreprocessors performing steps A, B, C, and D) encompasses both all suchattributes or functions being mapped to all such objects and subsets ofthe attributes or functions being mapped to subsets of the attributes orfunctions (e.g., both all processors each performing steps A-D, and acase in which processor 1 performs step A, processor 2 performs step Band part of step C, and processor 3 performs part of step C and step D),unless otherwise indicated. Similarly, reference to “a computer system”performing step A and “the computer system” performing step B caninclude the same computing device within the computer system performingboth steps or different computing devices within the computer systemperforming steps A and B. Further, unless otherwise indicated,statements that one value or action is “based on” another condition orvalue encompass both instances in which the condition or value is thesole factor and instances in which the condition or value is one factoramong a plurality of factors. Unless otherwise indicated, statementsthat “each” instance of some collection have some property should not beread to exclude cases where some otherwise identical or similar membersof a larger collection do not have the property, i.e., each does notnecessarily mean each and every. Limitations as to sequence of recitedsteps should not be read into the claims unless explicitly specified,e.g., with explicit language like “after performing X, performing Y,” incontrast to statements that might be improperly argued to imply sequencelimitations, like “performing X on items, performing Y on the X'editems,” used for purposes of making claims more readable rather thanspecifying sequence. Statements referring to “at least Z of A, B, andC,” and the like (e.g., “at least Z of A, B, or C”), refer to at least Zof the listed categories (A, B, and C) and do not require at least Zunits in each category. Unless specifically stated otherwise, asapparent from the discussion, it is appreciated that throughout thisspecification discussions utilizing terms such as “processing,”“computing,” “calculating,” “determining” or the like refer to actionsor processes of a specific apparatus, such as a special purpose computeror a similar special purpose electronic processing/computing device.Features described with reference to geometric constructs, like“parallel,” “perpendicular/orthogonal,” “square”, “cylindrical,” and thelike, should be construed as encompassing items that substantiallyembody the properties of the geometric construct, e.g., reference to“parallel” surfaces encompasses substantially parallel surfaces. Thepermitted range of deviation from Platonic ideals of these geometricconstructs is to be determined with reference to ranges in thespecification, and where such ranges are not stated, with reference toindustry norms in the field of use, and where such ranges are notdefined, with reference to industry norms in the field of manufacturingof the designated feature, and where such ranges are not defined,features substantially embodying a geometric construct should beconstrued to include those features within 15% of the definingattributes of that geometric construct. The term “set” may indicate asingle item or a plurality of items, e.g., “set of widgets” may indicateonly one widget or may indicate multiple widgets. The terms “first”,“second”, “third,” “given” and so on, if used in the claims, are used todistinguish or otherwise identify, and not to show a sequential ornumerical limitation. As is the case in ordinary usage in the field,data structures and formats described with reference to uses salient toa human need not be presented in a human-intelligible format toconstitute the described data structure or format, e.g., text need notbe rendered or even encoded in Unicode or ASCII to constitute text;images, maps, and data-visualizations need not be displayed or decodedto constitute images, maps, and data-visualizations, respectively;speech, music, and other audio need not be emitted through a speaker ordecoded to constitute speech, music, or other audio, respectively.Computer implemented instructions, commands, and the like are notlimited to executable code and can be implemented in the form of datathat causes functionality to be invoked, e.g., in the form of argumentsof a function or API call.

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The present techniques will be better understood with reference to thefollowing enumerated embodiments:

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A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing    instructions that when executed by one or more processors effectuate    operations comprising: obtaining, with a computer system, a    natural-language-text document comprising a first clause and a    second clause; determining, with the computer system, a first    embedding sequence based on n-grams of the first clause and a second    embedding sequence based on n-grams of the second clause;    generating, with the computer system, a first data model object and    a second data model object based on the first embedding sequence and    the second embedding sequence, wherein: the first data model object    comprises a first field populated with a first n-gram of the first    clause and a second field populated with a first category; and the    second data model object comprises third field populated with a    second n-gram of the second clause and a fourth field populated with    a second category; determining, with the computer system, an    association between the first data model object and the second data    model object based on a shared parameter of the first and second    clauses; receiving, with the computer system, a query comprising the    first category and the first n-gram; causing, with the computer    system, a presentation of a visualization of the first and second    data model objects in response to receiving the query, the    visualization comprising: a first shape comprising the first n-gram    and the first category; a second shape comprising the second n-gram    and the second category; and a third shape comprising a first end    that is connected to the first shape and a second end that is    connected to the second shape based on the association between the    first data model object and the second data model object; and    storing, with the computer system, the first data model object and    the second data model object in memory.-   2. The medium of embodiment 1, wherein: the first embedding sequence    is a first ordered list of embedding vectors each corresponding to    one of the n-grams in the first clause; the second embedding    sequence is a second ordered list of embedding vectors each    corresponding to one of the n-grams in the second clause; the first    data model object is a first semantic triple; and the second data    model object is a second semantic triple.-   3. The medium of embodiments 1 to 2, wherein generating the first    and second data model objects comprises: determining a first    candidate subject entity based on the first embedding sequence and a    second candidate subject entity based on the second embedding    sequence; determining whether the first candidate subject entity and    the second candidate subject entity are entities identified by a    stored set of entity identifiers; in response to a determination    that the first and second candidate subject entities are entities    identified by the stored set of entity identifiers, populating the    first field with the first candidate subject entity and the second    field with the second candidate subject entity; selecting the first    category based on the first candidate subject entity and the second    category based on the second candidate subject entity using a    machine learning model; populating the second field with the first    category and the fourth field with the second category.-   4. The medium of embodiments 1 to 3, the operations further    comprising: determining boundaries of a first text section based on    a header of the first text section, wherein the header is bounded by    at least one of a formatting tag, a newline, or a colon; and storing    a stored set of entity identifiers based on n-grams of the first    text section; determining whether a sequence of strings comprises an    identifier of the stored set of entity identifiers; and in response    to a determination that the sequence of strings comprises the    identifier, determining that the sequence of strings is a lexical    item of a set of lexical items, wherein generating the first    embedding sequence comprises generating an embedding vector based on    the lexical item.-   5. The medium of embodiments 1 to 4, the operations further    comprising: determining a domain category of the    natural-language-text document; and selecting a machine learning    model parameter of a plurality of machine learning model parameters    based on the domain category, wherein using a machine learning model    comprises using the machine learning model parameter.-   6. The medium of embodiments 1 to 5, wherein generating the first    data model object comprises: training a machine learning model to    obtain a first set of machine learning model parameters based on an    objective function result, wherein the objective function result is    determined based on a summation of linkage scores between different    embedding vectors, and wherein the linkage scores are determined    based on a predicted probability of the machine learning model and a    training probability of a training set; determining a set of    probabilities indicating pairwise likelihoods of the first embedding    sequence using the machine learning model based on the first set of    machine learning model parameters; determining a first predicate    value of the first clause based on the set of probabilities;    validating the first predicate value based on a stored set of    predicate values; selecting a sequence position based on an    initiating position or terminal position of the first predicate    value of the first clause; and selecting a first continuous    subsection of the first embedding sequence based on the sequence    position, wherein the first continuous subsection comprises an    embedding vector representing the first n-gram, wherein generating    the first data model object comprises determining a value of the    first field based on the first continuous subsection.-   7. The medium of embodiment 6, the operations further comprising:    determining a second continuous subsection of the first embedding    sequence based on the sequence position, wherein the second    continuous subsection does not comprise an embedding vector    representing the first n-gram; and populating a fifth field based on    an embedding vector of the second continuous subsection using a    machine learning model, wherein the fifth field is a field of the    first data model object.-   8. The medium of embodiments 6 to 7, the operations further    comprising: retrieving a second set of machine learning model    parameters; determining a second continuous subsection of the first    embedding sequence based on the sequence position, wherein the    second continuous subsection does not comprise a first embedding    vector representing the first n-gram; determining a second embedding    vector based on the second set of machine learning model parameters    and the predicate value; and populating a third field of the first    data model object based on the second embedding vector.-   9. The medium of embodiments 1 to 8, wherein the first data model    object is associated with a third data model object, the operations    further comprising: determining whether the first clause comprises a    word associated with a set of words representing a negation term;    and assigning a tag associated with an association between the first    data model object and the second data model object based on a    determination that the clause comprises the word associated with the    set of words.-   10. The medium of embodiments 1 to 9, wherein storing the first and    second data model objects comprises storing a data structure    comprising the first and second data model objects in a distributed,    tamper-evident data store of a peer-to-peer data-sharing network.-   11. The medium of embodiments 1 to 10, wherein the first shape    comprises: a first indication of the first category with respect to    a first entity; and a second indication of the second category with    respect to a second entity.-   12. The medium of embodiments 1 to 11, wherein storing the first    data model object and the second data model object in memory    comprises storing a graph structure, the operations further    comprising: updating the graph structure to comprise a first graph    vertex of the graph structure based on the first clause, wherein the    first graph vertex is associated with the first data model object;    updating the graph structure to comprise a second graph vertex of    the graph structure based on the second clause, wherein the second    graph vertex is associated with the second data model object; and    updating the graph structure to comprise a graph edge comprising an    identifier of the first graph vertex and an identifier of the second    graph vertex based on the association between the first data model    object and the second data model object.-   13. The medium of embodiment 12, the operations further comprising:    indexing the first graph vertex based on the first category; wherein    causing the display of the visualization comprises: retrieving the    identifier of the first graph vertex based on the first category    received via the query; retrieving the identifier of the second    graph vertex based on the graph edge; and displaying text stored in    association with the first graph vertex and the second graph vertex.-   14. The medium of embodiments 1 to 13, wherein determining the    association between the first data model object and the second data    model object comprises: determining a set of text sections by    segmenting the natural-language-text document based on formatting    tags or whitespaces of the natural-language-text document;    determining the shared parameter of the first and second clauses    comprises by: determining a first parameter of the first clause    based on a value of the first data model object; determining whether    a field of the second data model object comprises the first    parameter; and based on a determination that the second data model    object comprises the field, determining that the shared parameter    comprises the first parameter.-   15. The medium of embodiments 1 to 14, further comprising:    determining a first set of linkage scores between embedding vectors    of the first embedding sequence by, for each respective pair of    embedding vectors of the first embedding sequence, determining a    respective linkage score; determining a set of summation values of    logs of the first set of linkage scores, wherein each summation    value of the set of summation values is associated with one or more    embedding vectors of the first embedding sequence; and determining    the first n-gram based on a maximum of the set of summation values.-   16. The medium of embodiments 1 to 15, wherein determining the first    embedding sequence comprises: generating a token sequence based on    the first clause, wherein each respective token of the token    sequence comprises a part of the first clause; and generating the    first embedding sequence based on the token sequence, wherein each    respective embedding vector is associated with a respective token of    the token sequence.-   17. The medium of embodiments 1 to 16, the operations further    comprising: determining a first intermediate output of a machine    learning model based on a noninitial, non-terminal embedding vector    of the first embedding sequence, a second intermediate output, and a    third intermediate output, wherein: the second intermediate output    is determined based on a first embedding vector that is positioned    before the noninitial, non-terminal embedding vector; and the third    intermediate output is determined based on a second embedding vector    that is positioned after the noninitial, non-terminal embedding    vector in the first embedding sequence; and determining the first    category associating the noninitial, non-terminal embedding vector    with the first category based on the first intermediate output.-   18. The medium of embodiments 1 to 17, the operations further    comprising: determining a first sequence of parts-of-speech values    corresponding with the first embedding sequence based on the first    clause by, for each respective lexical item of the first clause,    assigning a respective parts-of-speech value; providing, during a    first timestep, the first embedding sequence and the first sequence    of parts-of-speech values to a machine learning model to determine a    first intermediate output; providing, during a second timestep, the    first intermediate output, the first embedding sequence, and the    first sequence of parts-of-speech values to the machine learning    model to determine the first category.-   19. The medium of embodiments 1 to 18, wherein determining the first    data model object comprises steps for determining the first data    model object.-   20. The medium of embodiments 1 to 19, wherein determining the first    embedding sequence comprises steps for determining the first    embedding sequence.-   21. A method to perform the operations of any of the embodiments    1-20.-   22. A system, comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing    instructions that when executed by the processors cause the    processors to effectuate operations comprising: the operations of    any one of embodiments 1 to 20.

What is claimed is:
 1. A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readablemedium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processorseffectuate operations comprising: obtaining, with a computer system, anatural-language-text document comprising a first clause and a secondclause; determining, with the computer system, a first embeddingsequence based on n-grams of the first clause and a second embeddingsequence based on n-grams of the second clause; generating, with thecomputer system, a first data model object and a second data modelobject based on the first embedding sequence and the second embeddingsequence, wherein: the first data model object comprises a first fieldpopulated with a first n-gram of the first clause and a second fieldpopulated with a first category; and the second data model objectcomprises third field populated with a second n-gram of the secondclause and a fourth field populated with a second category; determining,with the computer system, an association between the first data modelobject and the second data model object based on a shared parameter ofthe first and second clauses; receiving, with the computer system, aquery comprising the first category and the first n-gram; causing, withthe computer system, a presentation of a visualization of the first andsecond data model objects in response to receiving the query, thevisualization comprising: a first shape comprising the first n-gram andthe first category; a second shape comprising the second n-gram and thesecond category; and a third shape comprising a first end that isconnected to the first shape and a second end that is connected to thesecond shape based on the association between the first data modelobject and the second data model object; and storing, with the computersystem, the first data model object and the second data model object inmemory.
 2. The medium of claim 1, wherein: the first embedding sequenceis a first ordered list of embedding vectors each corresponding to oneof the n-grams in the first clause; the second embedding sequence is asecond ordered list of embedding vectors each corresponding to one ofthe n-grams in the second clause; the first data model object is a firstsemantic triple; and the second data model object is a second semantictriple.
 3. The medium of claim 1, wherein generating the first andsecond data model objects comprises: determining a first candidatesubject entity based on the first embedding sequence and a secondcandidate subject entity based on the second embedding sequence;determining whether the first candidate subject entity and the secondcandidate subject entity are entities identified by a stored set ofentity identifiers; in response to a determination that the first andsecond candidate subject entities are entities identified by the storedset of entity identifiers, populating the first field with the firstcandidate subject entity and the second field with the second candidatesubject entity; selecting the first category based on the firstcandidate subject entity and the second category based on the secondcandidate subject entity using a machine learning model; populating thesecond field with the first category and the fourth field with thesecond category.
 4. The medium of claim 1, the operations furthercomprising: determining boundaries of a first text section based on aheader of the first text section, wherein the header is bounded by atleast one of a formatting tag, a newline, or a colon; and storing astored set of entity identifiers based on n-grams of the first textsection; determining whether a sequence of strings comprises anidentifier of the stored set of entity identifiers; and in response to adetermination that the sequence of strings comprises the identifier,determining that the sequence of strings is a lexical item of a set oflexical items, wherein generating the first embedding sequence comprisesgenerating an embedding vector based on the lexical item.
 5. The mediumof claim 1, the operations further comprising: determining a domaincategory of the natural-language-text document; and selecting a machinelearning model parameter of a plurality of machine learning modelparameters based on the domain category, wherein using a machinelearning model comprises using the machine learning model parameter. 6.The medium of claim 1, wherein generating the first data model objectcomprises: training a machine learning model to obtain a first set ofmachine learning model parameters based on an objective function result,wherein the objective function result is determined based on a summationof linkage scores between different embedding vectors, and wherein thelinkage scores are determined based on a predicted probability of themachine learning model and a training probability of a training set;determining a set of probabilities indicating pairwise likelihoods ofthe first embedding sequence using the machine learning model based onthe first set of machine learning model parameters; determining a firstpredicate value of the first clause based on the set of probabilities;validating the first predicate value based on a stored set of predicatevalues; selecting a sequence position based on an initiating position orterminal position of the first predicate value of the first clause; andselecting a first continuous subsection of the first embedding sequencebased on the sequence position, wherein the first continuous subsectioncomprises an embedding vector representing the first n-gram, whereingenerating the first data model object comprises determining a value ofthe first field based on the first continuous subsection.
 7. The mediumof claim 6, the operations further comprising: determining a secondcontinuous subsection of the first embedding sequence based on thesequence position, wherein the second continuous subsection does notcomprise an embedding vector representing the first n-gram; andpopulating a fifth field based on an embedding vector of the secondcontinuous subsection using a machine learning model, wherein the fifthfield is a field of the first data model object.
 8. The medium of claim6, the operations further comprising: retrieving a second set of machinelearning model parameters; determining a second continuous subsection ofthe first embedding sequence based on the sequence position, wherein thesecond continuous subsection does not comprise a first embedding vectorrepresenting the first n-gram; determining a second embedding vectorbased on the second set of machine learning model parameters and thepredicate value; and populating a third field of the first data modelobject based on the second embedding vector.
 9. The medium of claim 1,wherein the first data model object is associated with a third datamodel object, the operations further comprising: determining whether thefirst clause comprises a word associated with a set of wordsrepresenting a negation term; and assigning a tag associated with anassociation between the first data model object and the second datamodel object based on a determination that the clause comprises the wordassociated with the set of words.
 10. The medium of claim 1, whereinstoring the first and second data model objects in memory comprisesstoring a data structure comprising the first and second data modelobjects in a distributed, tamper-evident data store of a peer-to-peerdata-sharing network.
 11. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first shapecomprises: a first indication of the first category with respect to afirst entity; and a second indication of the second category withrespect to a second entity.
 12. The medium of claim 1, wherein storingthe first data model object and the second data model object in memorycomprises storing a graph structure, the operations further comprising:updating the graph structure to comprise a first graph vertex of thegraph structure based on the first clause, wherein the first graphvertex is associated with the first data model object; updating thegraph structure to comprise a second graph vertex of the graph structurebased on the second clause, wherein the second graph vertex isassociated with the second data model object; and updating the graphstructure to comprise a graph edge comprising an identifier of the firstgraph vertex and an identifier of the second graph vertex based on theassociation between the first data model object and the second datamodel object.
 13. The medium of claim 12, the operations furthercomprising: indexing the first graph vertex based on the first category;wherein causing the display of the visualization comprises: retrievingthe identifier of the first graph vertex based on the first categoryreceived via the query; retrieving the identifier of the second graphvertex based on the graph edge; and displaying text stored inassociation with the first graph vertex and the second graph vertex. 14.The medium of claim 1, wherein determining the association between thefirst data model object and the second data model object comprises:determining a set of text sections by segmenting thenatural-language-text document based on formatting tags or whitespacesof the natural-language-text document; determining the shared parameterof the first and second clauses comprises by: determining a firstparameter of the first clause based on a value of the first data modelobject; determining whether a field of the second data model objectcomprises the first parameter; and based on a determination that thesecond data model object comprises the field, determining that theshared parameter comprises the first parameter.
 15. The medium of claim1, the operations further comprising: determining a first set of linkagescores between embedding vectors of the first embedding sequence by, foreach respective pair of embedding vectors of the first embeddingsequence, determining a respective linkage score; determining a set ofsummation values of logs of the first set of linkage scores, whereineach summation value of the set of summation values is associated withone or more embedding vectors of the first embedding sequence; anddetermining the first n-gram based on a maximum of the set of summationvalues.
 16. The medium of claim 1, wherein determining the firstembedding sequence comprises: generating a token sequence based on thefirst clause, wherein each respective token of the token sequencecomprises a part of the first clause; and generating the first embeddingsequence based on the token sequence, wherein each respective embeddingvector is associated with a respective token of the token sequence. 17.The medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising: determining afirst intermediate output of a machine learning model based on anoninitial, non-terminal embedding vector of the first embeddingsequence, a second intermediate output, and a third intermediate output,wherein: the second intermediate output is determined based on a firstembedding vector that is positioned before the noninitial, non-terminalembedding vector; and the third intermediate output is determined basedon a second embedding vector that is positioned after the noninitial,non-terminal embedding vector in the first embedding sequence; anddetermining the first category associating the noninitial, non-terminalembedding vector with the first category based on the first intermediateoutput.
 18. The medium of claim 1, the operations further comprising:determining a first sequence of parts-of-speech values correspondingwith the first embedding sequence based on the first clause by, for eachrespective lexical item of the first clause, assigning a respectiveparts-of-speech value; providing, during a first timestep, the firstembedding sequence and the first sequence of parts-of-speech values to amachine learning model to determine a first intermediate output;providing, during a second timestep, the first intermediate output, thefirst embedding sequence, and the first sequence of parts-of-speechvalues to the machine learning model to determine the first category.19. The medium of claim 1, wherein determining the first data modelobject comprises steps for determining the first data model object. 20.The medium of claim 1, wherein determining the first embedding sequencecomprises steps for determining the first embedding sequence.
 21. Amethod comprising: obtaining, with a computer system, anatural-language-text document comprising a first clause and a secondclause; determining, with the computer system, a first embeddingsequence based on n-grams of the first clause and a second embeddingsequence based on n-grams of the second clause; generating, with thecomputer system, a first data model object and a second data modelobject based on the first embedding sequence and the second embeddingsequence, wherein: the first data model object comprises a first fieldpopulated with a first n-gram of the first clause and a second fieldpopulated with a first category; and the second data model objectcomprises third field populated with a second n-gram of the secondclause and a fourth field populated with a second category; determining,with the computer system, an association between the first data modelobject and the second data model object based on a shared parameter ofthe first and second clauses; receiving, with the computer system, aquery comprising the first category and the first n-gram; causing, withthe computer system, a presentation of a visualization of the first andsecond data model objects in response to receiving the query, thevisualization comprising: a first shape comprising the first n-gram andthe first category a second shape comprising the second n-gram and thesecond category; and a third shape comprising a first end that isconnected to the first shape and a second end that is connected to thesecond shape based on the association between the first data modelobject and the second data model object; and storing, with the computersystem, the first data model object and the second data model object inmemory.